By Brown Chimezie
Publisher of StreetJournal Magazine, Wole Arisekola, has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his swearing in as president of the country.
In a statement, the Dublin-based publisher also appealed to President Tinubu to consider Ibadanland in his ministerial appointment for Oyo
“As you begin to settle down to the hard tasks ahead, I wish to bring to your attention, the concerns and anxieties of the leadership and people of Ibadanland over the imminent appointment of ministers into the federal cabinet. I feel it is right and appropriate to apprise you of the neglect and marginalization Ibadanland has suffered under the previous All Progressives Congress (APC) federal leadership.
“In 2015, at the beginning of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, the ministerial appointee from Oyo was Adebayo Shittu who hailed from Saki in Saki West Local Government of the state. This is even though the 11 local governments of Ibadanland account for 60 per cent of the entire population of Oyo State and 50 per cent of the votes cast for the APC.
“In the presidential election of February 25, 2023, Oyo State cast 449,884 votes for APC, of which 204,296 or 45.5 per cent came from Ibadanland.
“Today, we have no case in tribunal or any court against the incumbent governor who was declared the winner and to the best of my knowledge, no Ibadan indigene is holding any post in all the Federal Government parastatals.
“Fortunately, in Ibadan, we have a good number of well-educated, accomplished, and seasoned technocrats who have never been accused of looting any treasury in all offices they have ever served, we also have decent politicians of Ibadan extraction from the APC among whom you can make an informed choice.”