Hon Busayo Oluwole Oke, represented Ijesha North federal constituency in the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2011 and was for most of that period, chairman of the house committee on defence.
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Oke is now one of a handful of aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP aspiring for the party's ticket ahead of the 2014 gubernatorial election in Osun State. In this interview he asserts his credentials for the job and what makes him better qualified than most of those already in the race. Excerpts:
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What is the driving force behind your ambition?
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You cannot give what you don't have. I am coming from a background that is very unique unlike other people who have governed the state. I am coming from the organized private sector coupled with very strong academic background.
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So I am going to make a difference based on my wide experience. We are now in the world that the private sector has taken the lead, we are in a global economy that is private sector geared.
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So coming from that sector, I have much to offer. I am an entrepreneur with over 1000 workers and with a minimum monthly wage of N50million. So I am prepared to serve Osun State and to tackle lot of problems confronting the state.
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I have dissected the incumbent government's policies and programmes. I am very pragmatic and I don't criticise any how, the present administration has good intention but they are not well thought
out, so the government is not a finisher. In my heart, the leader lacks capacity to finish the policies. So rather than moving Osun State forward, Osun state is being dragged behind in the comity of states and we cannot fold our hands.
I don't even want to involve myself in their problems cos it's really annoying me to hear such statements from people like this
This people are ready to go to any length to resolve this whole issue. This is battle of words now?