Gov. Fayemi and the old widow (Opinion)

By: Sir. Samuel O. Ajayi

Mama Leah Adegbulugbe Ogundipe spoke from the street to Gov. Kayode Fayemi via the ‘Meet your Governor’ programme and said she had just N100 on her as her three kids were not working. She wanted the Ekiti governor to reintroduce his social intervention scheme, ‘Owo Arugbo’. (Money for the elderly).

Fayemi was to later invite her to his office and asked the Enterprise and Micro-finance scheme DG to give mama’s daughter, Funmi, a temporary employment and also capture her when next the Labour, Employment and Productivity Bureau is doing recruitment.

Mama, widowed since 1994 lost her son, who was the family’s breadwinner, in 2010.

Now Mama Ogundipe’s prayers seemed to have been answered.

My Take:
This is the PERSONAL HUMAN TOUCH that Fayemi lacked in his first term. Thank God he now has it and displaying it.

He seems to have learnt his lessons that governance is first and foremost about connecting with the ordinary people and not your big friends from Lagos and Abuja.

Good one from the former NADECO guy. While I personally don’t like tokenism, if someone like this old woman wants the ‘Owo Arugbo’ scheme to be reintroduced, it means the scheme had its benefits.

At times, this is what Fayose does and they call him showman. But it is deeper than that. It is called the human touch.

Good one from from Fayemi…