I Became A Senator Before Turning 35, Being Cyberbullied Doesn’t Get Me Upset-Gov Dapo Abiodun

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state has disclosed that he does not get upset about being cyberbullied  but would rather ignore anyone who does this to him.

 The governor, who asserted that he has paid his dues in politics having had the privilege of becoming a member of senate before turning 35, added that he is unperturbed about social media posts claiming that he  has not delivered dividends of democracy to Ogun state people.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Governor Abiodun said this during his meeting with the coalition of youth organizations in the state at the Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta on Wednesday.

He asserted that he has actually delivered good governance in his five years as Chief Executive of Ogun state.

‘I normally don’t get disturbed by such things because one of my mentors in politics told me that in politics, you must make sure that you are mentioned either for the right or wrong reasons, but be continuously mentioned because if you are not mentioned, you are just part of the crowd.

For me, I am not bothered that I have been under attack by faceless people on social media because I know what I am. I know who I am. I know what I did before I became governor. I know how long I have been on this journey.

I became a senator before I was 35, the youngest at that time and I have been on this space in the state contesting on different platforms from that time until God decided that He was going to make me a governor and someone would imagine that after all that I had gone through to get to this position, all I will do is to be biting my fingernails. That person must be a joke.

I became the governor under the most torturous and most difficult circumstances. I can’t go through that baptism of fire to get to the office and become complacent. Our Internally Generated Revenue was around N50 billion a year before. But in four years, we have grown it to almost N200 billion, and someone says Dapo Abiodun is just sitting in Ogun state and doing nothing. That has to be a joke’ he said.

Governor Abiodun also said his administration has prioritized  Infrastructure, Social Welfare and Wellbeing, Education, Youth Empowerment and Job Creation, and Agriculture as encapsulated in his ISEYA mantra.

The governor has also urged Nigerian youths to constructively engage the government in finding lasting solutions to  the nation’s problems rather than engaging in protests that could cause further harm to the country.

Recall that the young people in the country are planning to  stage  a nationwide cost-of-living protests  on August 1,2024.

 Nigeria, like many countries across the world, he noted, is going through a difficult time, hence the need for the youths to bring in their vibrancy, zeal, ingenuity, and technical know-how to solve the problems.

The governor, who recalled the destruction of lives and property across the country in 2020, during the EndSARS protests, said protests could only aggravate issues without necessarily finding solutions to them.

‘There is a Yoruba proverb that says, ‘beheading is not the solution for a headache’. If there are issues, let us discuss them, let us find a way around them, and let us manage and correct them. Let us not cut off the head or attempt to cut off the head because of a headache. That will amount to decapitation’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you.