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This is what Dr muiz banire San has to say about his rumored Ambition to rule Osun state
Banire: Governorship Agenda in Osun is Impossible
Your rumoured governorship ambition in Osun State has gone viral. How true is that?
In the first instance, the people that must be speculating it, I am sure have their own agenda or are mentally deranged because I truly do not even have any relationship with Osun State at all, in whatever capacity, other than that my party governs the place and I know the governor very well. So, apart from those two, nothing else! If in my state, Lagos, I have not chosen to be governor, why would I go to a state like Osun to want to be governor? So, I don’t know where they have gotten the information from and why they are peddling such malicious information.
And beyond that again, is the reality that, even in my own state, I used to ask people, let any human being come out and say that I am even interested in the governorship. Not all of us are cut out for this kind of a thing. Some of us are just interested in good governance. We don’t need to be in any position to add value to the system and personally, I have not been interested in it, anyway and I am still not inclined.
In essence, are you saying you have no lineage traceable to Osun?
I have none. The coincidence is even that I have not been to the state officially in the last one year. I have not even been there in the last one year because of my own programmes. I mean, one year ago. And that is why I said they must be mentally deranged, because any sane person would not even say that kind of a thing that is not factual at all. I have enough to occupy me between here (Lagos) and Abuja and what would I now go there to do?
But do you have a political ambition in the nearest future?
I don’t have. Some of us are not cut out for it. I am a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as you know, I have a job and I am contented. What would I go and do there? How much would they pay me, if not to go and steal? Can any government afford to pay my salary or to take care of my own needs? They can’t. I am not cut out for it. I am not interested. The office can’t even take care of me.
I am even not ready to spend my hard earned money campaigning to come and take up responsibilities or to beg anybody. If you are genuine, you don’t need to spend money to be bribing people all over to come and vote for you, which is still the situation we find ourselves now – carrying money all over the places and I don’t have that kind of money to waste.
As an active politician, is it appropriate to just sit down and watch?
I am not a politician to start with. I have said it consistently, that I am not a nominal politician, not to talk of being an active one. Some of us are just in that corridor, because we are interested in good governance. In due course, we are charting a new course for ourselves outside the said politics, because for me, which one concerns me? Am I looking for anything there? I am okay and I am contented where I am.
(Culled from an APC lawmaker’s Facebook wall)
