By Abolaji Adebayo
Outgoing vice-chairman and chairmanship aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oshodi-Isolo LG, TPL Daisi Osho has urged the party leadership to conduct free and fair primaries, appealing for level-playing ground for all aspirants.
Emphasising that each aspirant should be allowed to test his or her ability and popularity, Osho, who said he did not believe in the rumour making the round that some leaders of the party are trying to impose a candidate on others, urged his supporters to dismiss the rumour.
According to him, if there would be such development, all other aspirants and stakeholders would have been duly informed about it and the order must have come from the apex leaders, adding that the party could not impose an inexperienced person to take over that sensitive position.
Osho, who spoke exclusively to Echonews newspaper, was sure of victory at the May 29 primaries “if the election is free and fair.”
Although he pleaded for fair play in the exercise, Osho said he would accept the party’s final decision, saying his ambition could not be bigger than the party’s policy…
He maintained that politics is not for the feeble-minded ones, emphasising that a loyal party member must accept the final decision of the party and the result of the election in good faith, noting that the party has a mechanism to pick a candidate if it so wishes.
Meanwhile, based on his academic and professional qualifications and his experience in politics, Osho said he is the best among others fit for the position of the local council chairman which will become vacant on July 24, this year, insisting that the party mechanism if used, should favour him.
Osho said the kind of leadership would determine the kind of youths to be produced in the community, saying: “If an educated person rules, the youths would be motivated to be educated as well and we are going to produce more lawyers, more bankers, more architects and so on..”
Osho, an urban and regional planner and architect by profession, has been in politics since the day of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1993, serving as its Lagos State Chairman and that he has been holding sensitive leadership positions in political parties from AC to ACN and APC.
He hinted that part of his agenda if elected the council chairman is to provide state-of-the-art ambulances within 100 days of his assumption of office in each of the four zones of the community for emergencies.
He explained that the ambulances will be ready to pick any resident in need at any point in time to the hospital for immediate treatment, saying there would be emergency toll numbers which the residents can call as the ambulances would be working round the clock.
