Oba Adeyemi stated this on Saturday while fielding questions from journalists shortly after hosting the Timi of Ede, Oba Muniru Adesola Lawal Laminisa1, and his entourage who were in Oyo town to felicitate with the Alaafin on the ongoing Oranyan festival.
Alaafin said the good governance and accountability being witnessed presently in Nigeria is serving as a beacon of hope for the rest of West Africa in particular and Africa as a whole.
‘’Until recently, lack of transparency, probity, and accountability in Nigeria translates into a pandemic across the sub-region and the continent as a vacuum is created by the absence of effective Nigerian leadership. President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in 2015 was that of hope and transformation will translate into the beginning of a new renaissance in the sub-region and the whole of the African continent for a new democracy in which wanton corruption, abuse of power, lack of transparency in governance, deceit of the citizenry, ineptitude, ethnicity and impunity were orders of the day,’’ he said.
The monarch asserted that changing a government under whose the “mass
of ordinary people were unnecessarily and needlessly burdened by
pervasive corruption, deliberate oligarchic mismanagement of abundant
natural resources,” was a feat worthy of emulation by other African
countries.
‘’The track record of the President and his unassailable commitment
to democratic processes since constitutional governance in Nigeria
in1999 gives hope that under his leadership, Nigeria will once more
instill the values of good and accountable governance not only in
Nigeria but also in West African and the continent at large,” the
Alaafin added.
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