By Femi Adesola
A Socio Political group, Development Advocacy Group (DAG), today in Oshogbo, staged a protest against the zoning of the Osun Governorship seat.
In their protest to the State APC Secretariat, The group who said they are championing the course of the common man, argued that competency should not be jettisoned for whatever zoning arrangements.
The spokesperson for the group Dr Wasiu Oyedokun, a Senior Lecturer at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti while addressing the press said zoning system gives only second best.
“We are campaigning vigorously against zoning system that is giving us second best. The best of us should rule the rest of us, wherever that best is coming from is a welcome development to us. We don’t want a situation where we’ll promote mediocrity at the alter of convenience, because of political jobbers who are only looking to fill their own candidates.”
“Our take in this matter is that the zoning is for the common man, if the common man is going to be the largest beneficiary of our political endeavour, of our political enterprise, that is our mission, that’s our dream and vision. The youth, the artisan, the Okada riders, the farmers, the market women, that in their own they will have a voice that is heard, that’s clear enough everywhere. Not that some group of people will come together because of their own political interest.”
“It does not matter where it comes from, it must be the best, I am also from the West am one of the competent hand also,but the truth is that let us not restrict, let us enlarge our coast so that our best will come from any where, we are not particularly against any zone, what we are saying is that the best must rule the rest of us.” He added