YOU CAN NEVER BECOME SPEAKER - OTOGE MOVEMENT SLAMS WOLE OKE

 

... implores Oke to seek repentance, not speakership 

The Otoge Movement has slammed Hon. Wole Oke, the member representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, for deceiving the people with the false hope that he will become Speaker of the House of Representatives if re-elected in 2027.

This was contained in a statement signed on Monday, November 9, by the Coordinator of the Movement, Comrade Olatunji Olorunfemi, popularly known as Awoko.

The Movement described the promise as a trick to garner votes from innocent constituents, asked him to change strategy, and disclosed that nobody votes for Speaker during a general election.

According to the Movement, only political parties are on the ballot paper, not principal officers. Principal officers are contested for inside the chamber, on the floor of the House.

While asking Hon. Wole Oke to prepare for imminent electoral defeat that will bury him politically, the Coordinator said the destiny of every cheated constituent of Obokun/Oriade will not allow him to become Speaker.

Olorunfemi also noted that the current Speaker, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, is from Kaduna in the North West, while the Senate President is from the South-South.

“With that arrangement,” the group argued, “the Speakership cannot be ceded to the South at the expense of the North. If the North still holds the Speakership in 2027, where is the space for the South West? In 20 years, you could not become any principal officer. The position of Speaker is for intelligent and thoughtful politicians, not lazy ones who only think of their pockets,” Olorunfemi stated.

He questioned Oke’s record, saying that in 20 years in the House of Representatives, he has never held any principal office — not Speaker, not Deputy Speaker, not Leader, not Whip.

He further claimed that a man who could not rise to any leadership position in 20 years has no basis to claim he will suddenly become Speaker in 2027.

He also described the 20 years as years of failure for Obokun/Oriade, with no federal university, no federal medical centre, and no legacy project, while the constituency still battles darkness, bad roads, youth unemployment and decaying schools.

He therefore called on the people of Obokun/Oriade not to fall for what he called the speakership scam again, and not to reward 20 years of failure with another four years.