Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, has stated how much he misses the administration of former Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
Makinde made the statement while speaking at the 60th birthday celebration of Samson Ajetomobi, president of The Men of Issachar Vision Incorporated (MIV) and overseer of the Redemption Faith Churches, in Ibadan, Oyo state capital, on Saturday, January 24, where Osinbajo was also in attendance.
Makinde said: “Sir, I personally miss you in that position (as vice president),” Makinde told Osinbajo.
“A lot of people may not know why things are not really the same. It’s not a political talk because I’m not on that podium.”
Makinde recounted how Osinbajo’s decision prevented him from announcing a lockdown in Oyo state during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“I remember I was barely seven months into the position of the governor of Oyo state and that was my very first public service job. And we had a crisis in the country; this was February 2020,” the governor said
“There was Covid, and we came in for the national economic council meeting. It was a hot meeting; the chairman of the council (Osinbajo) came in and a few of my colleagues. I wasn’t sure whether they held a meeting before that meeting, but they came in and said we should all go back and lock down our state.
“So, for Oyo state people, why I did not lock down during Covid was because of his decision.”
“But we had the same situation in this dispensation; it was the tax bill, and we said, ‘Look, bring the tax bill; bring it back; let us all have an opportunity to look dispassionately at it,’ but you cannot speak truth to power in this dispensation; the tax bill will go ahead.”
