 Today we take a look at the all-progressive Congress's readiness for July 16's governorship election in Oshun State and few dead two injured as bandits attacked Bihari's convoy en route, Dora. This is Plus Politics and I am Mary Anacor. As the clock ticks daily to the D-Day in Oshun State for the humanitarian elections and the flurry of political activities and intrigues that accompanied President Mohammed Bihari, Governor Babajideh Songolu of Lagos State, his Canoe State counterpart, Abdulahi Ganduje, and traditional monarchs, Heaven Dost, the candidature of Governor Adebuiga Uyitala for another term in office. Now the incumbent governor of the state who is seeking re-election said in a recent debate that workers have always received their full salaries since the start of his administration. Now ahead of the governorship polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has also said that it has taken a tough stance on those planning to engage in vote-buying and vote-selling. The chairman spoke against the backdrop of alleged massive vote trading that characterized the just concluded Akiti State humanitarian elections vowing that the threat and the trend, I beg your pardon, would be curbed in Saturdays July 16th, governorship polls in Oshun and of course the 2023 general elections. Now joining me to discuss the happenings in Oshun is Olaneon Adebisi-Toke, he is a special advisor to Oshun State governor on works and transportation. Thank you so much for joining us. Good evening, Nigerians. You're welcome and thank you for having me. Great. Let's start by looking at Governor Oyetala's trend and all that he's done in his first tenure in office. He's obviously seeking a re-election and hoping that the votes of the people would bring him back in office. Why would the average Oshun person want to cast their votes for Governor Oyetala? Thank you very much. I think that the reason for reasonable electorates of Oshun State to have Governor Adebisi-Toke back in power is to show gratitude for his stalling performance in his first term in office. What I mean here is a man who came into power and as soon as he came to power he had a long gone battle for a year and after that you had COVID-19 that ravaged the whole world so that in totality we can see that he has spent something close to like two years doing the actual job of governor and within this span of three years he has done immediately well to improve the living conditions of the average Oshun State in the region. He started by ensuring that he puts a lot of priority to their welfare and healthcare by revitalizing more than 300 primary care centers, not only the physical structures but also the medical equipment, medications and the personnel, the complement of personnel to take care of these facilities. Then he met a huge infrastructure deficit on grant and he has so far as we speak now touched all the news and crannies of Oshun State in terms of improving the low conditions, the barral conditions, the metal grant. There are many roads that were last touched at something years ago, 34 years ago, 27 years ago. His excellency came in to work on these roads and today those communities are enjoying the dividends of democracy. Important cities like between Ada and Ibagio in the Oshun center like Muruiakuyu in the Oshun east. So all these facilities, the Oshubu, Higo road with the very limited long road, he has put them back to shame and everybody is happy with what he's been. He has done to muscle live well in the area of education, in the area of agriculture and in other important areas that deal with human welfare. So I think that the people of Oshun State are yearning to ask him but to come and repeat the magic performance indeed he has done in this first time in office. Let's break down some of the things because it's one thing to say oh the governor's done this and that. Let's break it down. You talked about the health facilities. Now in Nigeria back in the day it was very easy to work from your home to a health post. Now we're seeing a disappearance of those health posts and this was something that was accessible to the average person before they could go to the, you know, let's say the teaching hospital. That was most available to the simple person. What has Governor Yatala done in reviving those health posts and making sure that healthcare is available to the average person, not just in the city but of course in the rural areas? Yeah, thank you very much. In Oshun State we have 30 local government areas. What Governor Yatala has done is to ensure that there is one primary healthcare center in each ward so that you don't have to travel far from your house to go and receive healthcare services from the government hospital and that's a very huge plus for our people here because you don't have to travel any long distance there to reach the people that will take care of your health and that's bringing back the health facilities and care to the people at the grassroots level. So for me this is a very huge achievement which has been recommended by people to other states that are aspiring to also make their people happy. What is the monitoring process like? Because it's another thing to have these health posts opened and sometimes you have one doctor or one nurse and sometimes you see nobody, it's empty, it's very difficult to get access to somebody to attend to these people. Is there a monitoring system in place because it's what you can set these places up with cut the red tape and then have the jamboree but who oversees the day-to-day activities to make sure that it's really working and then the people can actually say that the government has done something. Well we have the commissioner for health and his team and they have a monitoring team that actually go around on a regular basis to ensure that these primary health care centers are actually serving the needs of the people. The health care centers are equipped with enough medications with doctors and nurses that actually serve the people. These are very viable facts and the people of Austrian state can bear witness to all they are saying is not sitting to anyone and then we go to any of the health care primary centers to see the people serving the interest of the people. Let's talk about agriculture. There is good land in Austrian state and the most of the most of 2021 several states in the southwest had issues with headers and of course farmers dealing with the conflict of the famines being encroached upon or you know destroyed. Austrian state was barely in the news for that but what has the government done in the area of agriculture to boost production? Thank you very much. Because of the peaceful nature of our governor he has set up a committee of farmers and headers so that there are no areas of conflict between them. So what we have in other states you don't have an industrial state wherever any dispute arises the committee comes in to set two things amicably between headers and farmers. So farmers and headers each group is doing their thing peacefully with our problem. Now the farmers in Austrian state particularly the young farmers the two of them were given loans and grants to work on the farms have given their nursery inputs like fertilizers and the government land to work on them. Same goes for those who are in the poultry industry. So it's something that is an ongoing thing and we are seeing improvement in the area of agriculture in our state. You are the special advisor on works and transportation. Let's talk about that. I was talking about infrastructural programs other than you know the health post that the primary healthcare that the governor has put in place for the people of Austrian state. What are the other things? We're looking at housing we're looking at transportation how has the government impacted in these areas? Well thank you very much. Let me first of all talk about the interventions of the government on the issue of road infrastructure. As we talk now the state government is working on about 64 roads across the states. When I mean when I say four roads I wrote it up into the computer ones the ongoing ones and the one yet to be awarded. Majorly we were able to construct a fly over within Oshubu township at the heart of Oshubu that's the popular liar intersection in order to reduce the rate of accidents and condition in that at that hall. We have been able to construct a 20 kilometer long stretch of road between Iyana Ara to Ejibu and also a rough five kilometers road within Ejibutanshi. We have been able to work on a 13 kilometer long road between Ara and Iguajo. This is a road that was not was touched last about 32-33 years ago. We have been able to work on and it's a long road at Miyakuyu, Ashipa until the end of Ibadari fair S-Fest bridge. That road was also touched 27 years ago. We have a long list of roads that have been completed. Once we met our grant we are still working on them and we are embarking on new roads to make life this day for the motor public in our state. That is as far as road infrastructure is concerned. Because we do not have too much time let's go into the politics of the APC and of course what people should expect for the election day. Now there has been talks about a reconciliation of sorts between the former governor and the sitting governor. But then as we speak we hear that they are yet to reconcile of course and this is a report that we got from the factional chairman of the All Progressive Congress in the state. Why is there a faction in the APC in Oshun state and if the governor obviously is the leader of the party in the state why is it taking so long for these lines to be blurred if you must win the election come on the 16th. Why has all those grounds not been covered? Well thank you very much. As far as I am concerned APC in Oshun state is one and the governor is the leader of our party in their Oshun state. That is number one. Number two in any situation in any circumstance there are always misunderstandings there are always disagreements and as brothers and sisters as members of the same family I will come around to sort this out ourselves. For me when people disagree on the basis of principle somehow sometimes they have to meet together to iron railways and work together and I believe that our party is the best. Has the governor Yatella made that attempt to reach out to the former governor to have that conversation because you're saying that they have to come together and make peace but has anybody done or taken the first step because again a house that is divided against itself cannot stand it's okay and diplomatic for you to say that the APC in your state is one but is it really it's all fine and well we hear that there have been some defections from the people's democratic party into the APC but is that a sign that the party is on the right track even when the house within itself is divided. Well what I am saying in a sense is this that the governor Alagisa Academy Yatella has always been a man that is peaceful that have been looking for means of putting the house in order so the moves are always ongoing but these are not things that you will see outside they are on the ground moves and that's what I told you that very soon you will see the outcome of all these peace moves from across the device. How much how much education of auto education has the APC been able to do within the state now Einik is talking about fears of insecurity and they're also talking about the issue of vote buying we saw what happened in a kitty state a lot of vote buying we're still hearing calls for a cancellation of that election what's the what what what's the hope that the APC would do right in this election knowing that it is the power the party in power would we see a strong arming of people in this election or are you going to allow it to be free for incredible. Well let me tell you that because of the sterling performance of APC in Oslo State we have embarked on a lot of voters as a session we have embarked on a lot of voter education so that our teaming supporters and members would not have to make any mistake this time around to avoid votes to avoid the other negative developments during the time of the election so I made a full suggestion on the field educating people going from hamlet to hamlet from less is to less city from township to township to educate our members and our supporters and the other members of the public voting public I will say that we do not have any intention to buy votes from anyone this is simply because our performance is there for a performance piece for us and people in this state are happy with APC government in power and they will not get engaged by anybody to sway their conscience to do something different so for me and for my party APC you do not have any plan to buy votes from anybody and we cannot show you that without even being that our people are so deep behind us and they will vote us back to power on the issue of security okay I believe that sorry go ahead go ahead I believe that I believe that people chat with the security of I've been doing relations are up to the task and they will do their job and my party APC is ready to cooperate with the security people to show free here relation in our state and does the government or will you give us your word as a representative of the government of Oshun state that the average voter will feel safe enough to go out and cast their votes without fear of any violence breaking out at any polling unit across the state we are confident that the average voter in Oshun state will feel secure enough to exercise their franchise their civic rights and duties to Nigeria all right well Olanio Adebisi Tauke is the special advisor to the Oshun state governor on works and transport thank you so much for discussing with us we appreciate your thoughts you are welcome my name is Olanio Adebisi Tauke all right Tauke thank you very much for speaking with us well that's it on this segment we'll take a quick break when we return we'll be looking at what happened in Dota of course the pre- team of mr president was attacked by 300 man terrorist gang we'll talk about it after this break