 I will use my governorship to file Oshun into growth and development, says Oye Goke Omigodun. He is the SDP gubernatorial candidate for Oshun. And later on on the show, Cross River APC mobilizes for grassroots support and PVC collection. This is PlusPolitics, I am Mary Anacone. The candidate of the Social Democratic Party SDP in Oshun State governorship elections Oye Goke Omigodun says the carrot and stick approach is the best way to tackle autism in the state. Omigodun 58 years is an architect, a teacher, an estate surveyor and a politician who is also in the race to become the next governor of Oshun State. He has been the deputy chairman of the SDP in Oshun for about four years and previously served as the caretaker chairman of the Den Alliance for Democracy, AD, in his local government area. Now joining us to discuss plans for the July 16 elections in Oshun State is the Social Democratic Party governorship candidate Oye Goke Omigodun. Thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure always to be on any public medium like this talking to my people. Great. We saw the conversation as the debate held yesterday but it's great to have just you in the studio to find out exactly why you want to be governor of the states. No better way to start this conversation but to ask why did you think that this is the best time for you to run for this position? Well like I've explained several times, there were expectations that one had from people that would put themselves forward to be governors and the government of the day and the governor of the day are not doing exactly those things that the people want. Starting from the federal level, the government of the day promised us restructuring. That is not happening. Starting again or let me say continuing from the federal government of the day, they said they would be able to solve the problem of asking and let education be seamless without any break. Well you know that's not happening. Now coming back home to Oshun, there were several promises that a civil servant and pensioner would be paid as and when due. The unfortunate thing is that there are still so many untruths being told that they are being paid which are not quite correct. I don't want to say they are blame time to life. I'm trying to mind my language. But the truth of the matter is the civil servant of Oshun state are still being owed 15 solid months full salary because that is what you have when you still have a spending of half a month of half salary yet unpaid. A lot of pensioners are still awaiting their gratification. Many of them have died already. What do we have happening in Oshun state right now? I said it yesterday, standing on the same podium with the governor and he could not deny because he knows it is the ugly truth that he is spending a lot of money from state resources to pay what tier men of 80, what 33, what tier old. And so you have enough money running to about 400 million dollars every month to pay party chair leaders for doing absolutely nothing having to do with the promotion of the economy of the state. Yes, so I'm asking what do you bring to the table that would end the average Oshun voter to you because it's easy to criticize a government that is in power, especially if you're running for an office. But what would you bring that would be different, somewhat of a breath of fresh air that would make the average person want to vote for you other than the parties that be? Yes, I know it's easy to criticize those who are in power, but I need to remind you that I've been chairman of the property development corporation of Oshun state before. And when I got there, because I only started my track record before I go into the projections and tell you about my manifesto for the immediate future, because you need to be able to believe that I have actually been more than promising in 20 years. I became chairman of the property development corporation of Oshun state December 20th, 2000. And I promise that within six months of my becoming chairman, and I will be able to all the equipment that the property corporation of Oshun state will carry for more your state. Oshun state had been packed since 1991, nine solid years before I became chairman, and by December 31, 2001. I remember the date very well because that's my birthday, so I marked my birthday in about two months. Not even up to half of the six months that I promised, I had repaired all the equipment. There was a DHK blue design that was the most, that was the heaviest blue design in southwest Nigeria after that time. So I had repaired it, there was a grader, I had repaired it. There were other active equipment, I had repaired them. I started to clean up the roads of the population, and I started living out of Oshun and the grader, and just generating a lot of income for the property development corporation. And we didn't have to take money from the state again to do so many things. I only went to speak to Afiq, but it had to be so much money. He was a pro-house, he was a dog, and also now he can do this. And I was able to build so many DHKs and open up new roads in all the aspects that Oshun state property development corporation had. I'd like to tell you that today all the drainage in Orokiya state Oshubu were built under my administration, and actually still do not manage to town the roads. But unfortunately, the government of DT-Akabira, I was telling them, was adopted, and I didn't know what happened with my successor. So that's just part of the package. Now I was also a state children monitoring advisor of the United Nations Development Program, UNDP. And I delivered food from all the things, all the areas of intervention that UNDP asked me to deliver on them. And I know to remember all of them right now, but I remember there was just creation of a single livelihood as one of them. There were social developments, there was a grief, and there was none other. And I had about 80 rural communities all over Oshubu, spread all over the main county, local government, and area of Oshubu. And I delivered food on all of them before the end of the cycle. I think it was the second cycle that I was representing them between 2001 and 2003. So you're saying this to say that. So you're saying this to say that. You're a person that we should take at his word. You're somebody who says if I want to do something, I'll follow it through to the end, right? So I just wanted to clarify the aspect of the family of the people of Oshubu. Okay. Go ahead, go ahead, we're listening. Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Yes. I want to be the first governor that will generate, transmit, and distribute to the community in Nigeria. I am looking for the president and commandant from the other country to assign to that particular list of amendments to the constitution of Nigeria that was recently passed by the National Assembly. For the devolution of powers from the federal government to the state government to generate, to transmit, and to distribute to the community. Once I am able to do that, then the economy of Oshubu will be tickled once more. Even as we speak right now, the national grid is raised in Oshubu. And so as erratic as the supply is all over Nigeria, and as it is even in Oshubu, Oshubu has one of the best supplies of electricity in Nigeria, as erratic as it is right now. And that is why you find that as part of Oshubu's state, Oshubu has the highest number of higher institutions in Nigeria. Oshubu has the highest proportion of needs as part of its population in Nigeria. And Oshubu's state also has the highest number of at least arrested and prosecuted yahoo, yahoo boys. They have been caught having something available to do with internet port. So all I need to do while I am checking around these pathways, is to not have other means of income than to be thinking of being an orthodox, and not begin to see how it works. I like that you've played into my next question because I was going to ask, as much as you've talked about the infrastructural development and what you can bring to the table, the use of every state is the future of that state. And now we know that universities are on strike, there's still conversations between the government and ASU. And so we have a lot of young people idly. What plans, what strategies do you have to one way or the other cover the young people, whether the ones who have graduated from uni or the ones who have learned a craft or a skill. What are you going to do to engage these young persons one way or the other to also not open them up to be the devil's workshop? I thought I want to have the energy and the intellect of young people towards using internet for no one but us, rather than for internet search. I want to replicate how the eats perhaps have a smaller scale, silicon value, we don't change things. But I thought it the economy of California and I observed that until 1971 when silicon value started taking root, California was also keeping the rest of the states in America that had oil. So they would eat California, they would eat Colorado, they would eat Texas, and you know all of them were just trying to do one another, we can deal with oil. But the presence of the silicon value, California was so high and it's growing so ahead of the others. It's competing with several economies of the rest of the world. It's competing with the UK, competing with Germany, competing with Japan, competing with China. And in all of this competition, California as a state in the US has never done beyond the second position among the economies of the world. The same thing with what happened to Canada, the state of India, with the arrival of their own equivalent of a silicon value graph, a job creation for the ITC base, then young people started getting jobs there because organizations like FISCAP went there to start up employing people, FISCAP went there to start up employing people, FISCAP went there to start up employing people. Not only were they employing young people, they were paying taxes to the state that was foreign investment coming into the land and they did. You cannot sit here and talk with any of the other states in India in terms of the growth rate of the economy. But you're making reference to, I admire the fact that you're making reference to these places. But these are systems that work and these are systems that have worked over time. Like you said in your opener, we need power. Power is what powers every other thing. If we already haven't been able to deal with the issue of power, where do you build a silicon valley? How do you generate your energy? Because there are so many things that need to be put on the ground before we even get to these parts. Like I said at the beginning, it's very easy to talk about these things but implementation-wise, how realistic are these things? Can you hear me, Mr. Miguadu? Well, unfortunately we'll have to wrap up this conversation because of the bad connection. But Yigal Kilmibudu is the SDP governorship candidate and he was speaking to us from Oshun state. Unfortunately, the connection was poor. Well, thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a short break. When we get back, we'll be discussing APC in Kastripa state and their plans for 2023. Stay with us.