…..Ondo @50: You’re celebrating Stagnation —Sowore tells Aiyedatiwa
…No, Sowore only suffering from intellectual laziness —Aiyedatiwa’s Aide fires back
ONDO @50: You’re merely dancing around the State’s stagnation —Sowore to Gov. Aiyedatiwa
A former Presidential Candidate, Omoyele Sowore who is an indigene of ONDO state writes over 50th Anniversary of the state on his social media platforms thus;
Ondo @50 has been reduced to little more than spectacle and fluff under Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa’s watch.
There are no refurbished schools to showcase
No bridges built
No completed roads to commission
No hospitals to open, and no concrete security achievements to speak of!
Instead of milestones, citizens are offered pageantry; instead of progress, some physical dance performance.
At 50, Ondo state is not marking development or renewal, but merely dancing around its own stagnation while thuggery thrives and governance remains conspicuously absent.
REACTION
You’re suffering from intellectual laziness —Aiyedatiwa’s Aide tackles Sowore
Yòmí Oyékàn, an Aide to the Ondo State Governor, replied Sowore’s outburst;
Dear Egbon Omoyele Sowore , your post on Ondo State at 50 sounds less like concern for Ondo and more like a man trapped in a familiar loop.
For someone who has spent decades shouting “failure” at every government, one would expect at least one solid example of what success looks like under your own watch. But history shows a pattern: loud entrances, moral grandstanding, protests without outcomes, elections without victories, and endless commentary from the sidelines.
You speak as if governance is easy, yet you’ve never stayed long enough in any serious administrative role to prove you can manage complexity beyond slogans. Running a state is not running a Twitter space. Institutions are not built with rage, and development is not measured by how angry a post sounds.
What’s more disappointing is that this comes from an Ondo son, someone who should understand the depth of our challenges. Instead of offering insight, timelines, or comparative analysis, you default to exaggeration: “nothing exists, nothing works, everything is fluff.” That’s not bravery; that’s intellectual laziness.
You claim high morality while you’ve never allowed democracy in the political party you founded.
At some point, perpetual outrage stops looking like activism and starts looking like irrelevance. When a man spends years announcing collapse everywhere, people eventually stop asking him for direction.
Ondo @50 deserves reflection, critique, and honest pressure,not recycled bitterness from a career critic who has never carried the burden of actual governance.
You can’t keep failing to build, then mocking those who are at least laying blocks.
Happy new month, may this one finally bring you from permanent protest into the hard work of actual results.
Yòmí Oyékàn
(SSA to the Governor on Advertising & Signage)
