Continued from yesterday
BY hindsight, he was confronted by the caucus of the party and he vehemently denied. But we all know that this denial never stood the test of time as he joined the PDP government led by Dr. Olusegun Agagu.

He was made the Secretary to the Government, SGF. Mimiko is now the Iroko of Ondo politics today? I am yet to situate when he acquired this appellation. But you and I know that an Iroko tree admits sacrifices at will and each time it does this, it compromises with ease.

But Dr. Agagu had said time and again that he was contacted 17 days to the gubernatorial election of 2003. As a matter of fact, he begged to be made SGF, having been appointed commissioner twice in the past. He has never come out to deny this and I want to hold it to be true.

For the period he lasted in the administration of Dr. Agagu, it was obvious the he was not there with the whole of his heart,  that inordinate ambition kept threatening.

This spirit was helped by the instrumentality of the convicted Chief Olabode George, former PDP Deputy National Chairman, South who under 24 hours secured the credentials of Mimiko and forwarded same to Obasanjo for appointment as a minister after the exit of Chief (Mrs) Bolaji Osomo from the Federal cabinet.

He left for the federal cabinet as a PDP and came back as an LP.
This type of unstable, unreliable political history can’t guarantee a stable  political and economic development of the state. The truth is, the state is bleeding and suffering.

The resources available are enough to guarantee steady developments. All this is not feasible now in the face of deception and politics of vengeance.

The government, to me, appears to be shooting in the dark. The focus is more on building an empire and probably begin to wear the toga of god-fatherism.

For instance, in the midst of this chameleonic way of playing politics, only last year, Mimiko was heavily criticized for not being part of June 12 celebration in honour of the late M.K.O Abiola, the acclaimed winner of that election held in Lagos.

He cynically made up for this year’s by organising his own June 12 celebration in Akure last June. This is, however, not unconnected with the fact that he has fallen out of favour with Lagos. This is an issue for another day.

So many programmes have been inaugurated, which by the calculation of the government, are expected to usher in developments. Honestly, most of them are misplaced.

For example, the dome conceived for Akure for the cultural advancement of  state, the site is overgrown with weeds now. Road constructions are inaugurated with earth-moving equipment on display, only for such to disappear moments after.

Works at Ore mega city, how far? In my thinking, government is a continuum. If you think your predecessor had laid the foundation of development, why not build on it? Hunger, bad roads, joblessness do not know party affiliations.

Hunger is hunger to everybody. I am particularly saddened when a I take a trip to Edo where the real Comrade, Adams Oshiomhole, is busy commissioning some projects in the short while he took over just like Mimiko.

Ooh, perhaps, I should commend you, Mimiko, for being part of the commissioning of a restaurant in Akure last week. Even despite the promise to transform Akure in one year, it is still the semi-urban outlook that it is wearing.

This way, there is no way dividends of democracy can be delivered to the people if what we after is to create jobs for the boys, including party thugs and miscreants.

There must be a careful planning, roadmap to development. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. Careful and genuine planning is the only way to the top.

Unfortunately now, with this type of unstable political background, I don’t see Mimiko transforming the state now or in the nearest future. I doubt if the people of the state are ignorant enough not to read between the lines.

Yes, party loyalists may continue to hail at every of your appearance, they are after their stomach and care not about what happens to the future of the state.

The Labour Party which continues to labour for this while, when will it begin to deliver? I leave you with this Igbo adage: A goat that wants to deliver six  a day, and  6 p.m., it has not started to labour, when will it deliver the six?

Mr. Aminu is the Chief -Sub editor of Vanguard Newspapers.