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The New Deal is about restoring hope and confidence to a disillusioned people. It is about resourcing stranded youths, long abandoned at the junction of ambition. The New Deal is about advancement of infrastructural facilities, not a replacement of neglected utilities. It is about giving Ogun State habitable for the weak, tired and distant-land returnees who visit their birth for indigenous who have no other home to perform the duty of distrusting fears of the dead killed by hunger and disease. This New Deal is about bequeathing a legacy in selfless service, good governance and candid leadership.
“Governor Gbenga Daniel has today become the reference point in the art and act of the possible in Nigeria politics… To call the vision of intervention of OGD programmatic, as I have done, is not essentially reductionist. Rather, it is really to properly anchor that vision on its strengths and acknowledge its non-preoccupation with ideology as a defining factor.” — Wale Olaitan, a political theorist, OOU, Ago-Iwoye.
“…The truth needs to be told. The truth is that no other regime made as much conscious effort to recognize and harness the potentials of women the same way Otunba Gbenga Daniel is doing.” — Ademola Adegbamigbe, Editor, The News, Lagos.
“Nature provided natural resources for the use and development of human beings and it also provided the right intelligence to harness them. It requires a leader with a vision to harness the intellect and direct it towards the proper direction. This is what OGD has begun.” — Kehinde Salami, university teacher, OOU, Ile-Ife.
“Thinking of what to say, I remembered the pain sacking exactitude of an engineer, the ferocious precision of a marksman and the strong stamina of a marathoner. If OGD succeeds in changing the destiny of this generation, he has achieved a hero at heart.” — Louis Odion, Editor, The Sun on Sunday, Lagos.
Thus the contributors have made a very important point: that in this book, Daniel’s laudable programmes must be put in the coherent and deep-rooted ideology. It must be based on his people’s desire for change. There is a dialectic which he himself has aroused within Ogun State and beyond. — Ayoade Oyebola, author of Black man’s Dilemma
Akinyemi Onigbinde (Ed.) teaches socio-political philosophy at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye.
