Mr Abdulazeez Olatunde, the director for media, research and strategic planning for APC had a lot to say to the alleged accusation made by the people’s democratic party in Oyo state against the ruling governor Ajimobi, regarding his failures to the system in all ramification,.

Mr Olatunde disclosed in a chat with CEOAfrica that the government of Ajimobi has been the best so far for Oyo state and that it was a total decay before they came on board. He said that the people’s democratic party failed the system and this was the main reason why they were voted out of power. He made mention of so many achievements accorded to governor Ajimobi during his tenure, all disregarding what was earlier said. He further stretched that it felt like “no government had ruled” before governor Ajimobi took charge.

Countering the allegations on the failure recorded in the health sector, Mr Olatunde emphasized that what they met on ground were “decorated mortuaries” but for the University teaching hospital which covered up for all their inadequacies. According to him the people of Oyo state endured the PDP for their 8 years of reign.

 He described governor Ajumobi as the “messiah” who came to start from the scratch in 2011. He said in the first year the governor’s priority was to provide “basic life saving” which included free medical outreaches to all the 33 local governments in the state pending the time he will face the hospital squarely, which he later did. He said he did that to pay more attention to other urgent matters in the first term. The second term was when he focused on industrialisation, education and health. He emphasised that the governor never ignored the hospitals and health sector but for its decayed state it needed the government to declare a “state of emergency”

Since 2011, the government has been able to earmark about two million dollars to medical equipment, drugs and consumables, he retorted, when asked what governor Ajumobi had done. He identifies that the government has been able to renovate, equipment – stock and employ more staffs to about 124 health centres.

He further explained that in September 2017, when the governor realized that the little which he had done was not to his own standard of health practice in a civilized world of ours, he decided to come together with the  honourable commissioner for health Mr Azeez Adeduntan  to launch an ambitious 50 billion health endowment fund. He also said governor Ajumobi was the only governor who had successfully launched a “health insurance scheme”.

He says that the governor was thinking out of the box when he decided to do that and although they have not made up to one billon but he is very optimistic that the execution of the money will commence from February 2018 as so many people had made pledges.

When asked what he thought about the allegations of the PDP, he said that “the state of the hospitals in Oyo state is not as alarming as these noisemakers were making people to believe. They have gone out of stock and they have been bad market and they want to come back, which will not happen”.  Concluding his chat, Mr Olatunde advised the public to continuously support the administration of governor Ajimobi. He said that the state should think of ways to allow the goodwill of Apc to continue and be conscious of their voting decisions.

 Meanwhile, the chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji Kunmi Mustapha insisted that the APC had nothing to say as they were guilty of these charges. In an interview with CEO Africa’s correspondent today at the PDP’s office, Molete , Ibadan, Mr Mustapha pointed out enough loopholes in the Apc’s regime.

He stated that they are covering up their mistakes. He redirected our correspondent to the death of the Ibadan newscaster, Femi Oluwatobi who died for the failure of the ruling governments’ inability to stock up and provide good amenities in hospital he was carried to. He further said these allegations were not false and that they were backed up with strong evidences as the inadequacies in the health institutions in Oyo state were visible to all.

“We have learnt our lessons, we know our mistakes and we are ready to do away with all the mistakes that made us lose the past election” he answered , when he was asked what the public should expect from them in the forthcoming 2019 election.

Reported by Temitayo Shobukola for CEOAfrica