"Dreaming is of little value without hardwork to fulfill the dream, hardwork is of little value if not driven by a dream"
When Abdulwaheed Adebayo Adelabu clinched the APC ticket in Oyo state, many people were rolling on the ground celebrating the victory. It was indeed a victory worth celebration. In point of fact, Adelabu Adebayo has a goal that is taller than being part of history. He is set to make history. Getting the ticket to vie for governorship is not just the destination but a path to fulfilment of a destiny.
Sometimes, people dream, another man of destiny turns the dream into a stark reality. That fateful day on 28 August 1963, When Marthin Luther King made that mind searing prophesy "I have a dream", little did he know that the speech would one day rank the top American speech of the century. The winter of the King's discontent which was lurking in the dream became a glorious summer with a black man Barrack Obama, occupying a White House.
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In the case of Oloye Adelabu Adebayo, the dream of his forebears transcends having a grandson that will be grand in banking industry and break new ground in Oyo politics. It's beyond possessing a winning attitude or what philosophers call "promethian spirit" of an exemplar. And that's why Adebayo Adelabu is not thinking about winning the forthcoming election just for winning sake. He is to change the world, not to interpret the change. That's the Crux of the matter. It matters.
The difference , Penkelemesi said, "resides in the nature of the struggle" Adelabu Adegoke Penkelemesi dreamt about a 'destiny boy' who as a politician, ideologically speaking, "will hold fanatically to the principle he holds dear". He must be one who 'must toil for the greatest good of the greatest number of the people". Broad in outlook and flexible in approach'. One who will labour without respite to make Oyo state an epicenter of development in Nigeria. Who will create opportunity for people based on merit and make education for a social order a desideratum, etc.. (for more about the dream ,grab a copy of the timeless book "African in Ebullition"). Can you now see why when others are thinking about the next election, Adelabu Adebayo's mind is fixated on the next generation. His own campaign is not the usual 'blinding the layman' it's about fulfilment of a dream. Without any whiff of doubt, he has a ppotent combination of the goal and the method to walk the dream. Let me use this medium to formally congratulate him for the success recorded in the primary and remind him of his promise to make Oyo state a reference point wherever development is the major topic in the nearest future. As we say in the school #SemperOptimum I wish him all the best.
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I will soon start a series "Breaking the barriers" "to do a "SWOT "analysis of the governorship candidate of other leading political parties in Oyo state. "Don't change the Dial".
By Isiaka Kehinde
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