Osun Anthem Not Discarded – Speaker

•Osun PDP Completes What Oyetola Started – Fasure

•Continued from page 1 ifica ons about the Osun State Anthem, Crest and Flag Bill 2023.

“The proposed law makes provision for the Osun Anthem and the anthem is contained in Schedule 1 of the proposed law;

“The proposed law recognises the Nigerian Na onal Flag and Coat of Arms as the only Flag and Crest to be used at all public spaces in the State;

“The proposed law seeks to revert the name of our State to its cons tuonal name - Osun State;

“The proposed law seeks to change the descrip ve name of our State’s Assembly to “Osun State House of Assembly”;

“The proposed law seeks to comply with a decision of the Federal High Court, which is yet to be set aside by our appellate court.

“Essen ally, the proposed Law is there to make the iden ty and insignia of Osun State be in tandem with the provisions of extant laws.”

Osun PDP Completes What Oyetola Started – Fasure

Reac ng to the repeal of the law on State Anthem, Crest and Coat of Arm, Media Adviser to former minister of interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Mr Sola Fasure, said the Peoples Democra c Party (PDP) led government in the state is not solely responsible for the reversal of some of his principal’s legacies.

According to Fasure, former governor Adegboyega Oyetola, who Aregbesola handed power to, had started the destrucon of his predecessor’s legacies.

Fasure said Oyetola’s administra on reversed the school reclassifica on, single school uniform and parliamentary system for the local government administra on in the state.

The Media Adviser, who Spoke on Rave FM’s Frank Talk Programme in Osogbo, yesterday, stated that he was not surprised to see the PDP comple ng what Oyetola started.

He stated: The deconstruc on had actually begun with our successor’s (Oyetola) administra on, the same APC. What the PDP had done is the comple on of what successive APC administra on started.

“The desconsctruc- on started when the last administra on started reversing educa on policies of Aregbesola’s administraon. And they went as far as taking pupil out of new schools and took them back to dilapidated schools without furniture, just to depopulate the school.

“Officials of that government even started the talks on ‘there is nothing like State of Osun’, but they did not have the liver to do what the PDP has done now. When an enemy stabs you on the chest, you wont be as pained as when a brother stabs you in the back

“What PDP has done is an opposi on, what the opposi on does is to downplay your achievement and amplifier your mistakes, and if possible to maximally deconstruct you.

“But of course by doing that, they are also defining their own administra on and let just see how that play well for them when they are ready for re-elecon.”

Osun APC are ba ling with witchcra

“It is a case of approbaon and reproba on. This people we are saying said they did not need him (Aregbesola), that he was not important in the poli cs of the state, that they can win elec on without him. And truth to that, when they cons tuted the elec on council, they didn’t include him and any of his followers then and when they contested the elec on they lost.

Presiden al Campaign Council in the state and they did not include him or any of his people. They contested the elec on and lost. They are now turn around to blame him, that they lost because he worked against them. You said you didn’t need somebody to win, and you later come around to say you lost because he worked against you. That is the defini on of witchcra

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Speaking on alleged collabora on of Aregbesola with Governor Ademola Adeleke for the July 16, 2022 governorship elec on, Fasure said members of the Oyetolaled Ilerioluwa camp of the

“A er that, Aregbesola reached out to them and they felt that they should work together, all the TOP tendency and parallel structure were dissolved so that they can work together for the general elecon. But their posi on was the same that they didn’t need him.

“They cons tuted the

“The truth is, Aregbesola has no poli cal rela onship or cooperaon with the PDP, it is not impossible that individual within his supporters would had collaborated with the PDP in one way or the other, but neither the defunct TOP nor Aregbesola had any relaonship absolutely with PDP.”