RE: MAYBE LUKMAN IS NOT READY BY TITILOPE ANIFOWOSE LEGALEAGLE….
LUKMAN MUSTAPHA; A MAN ABOVE PETTINESS AND MISCHIEF.
Our attention has been drawn to a piece by Miss. Titilope ANIFOWOSE LegalEague calling into question the motive of Mallam Lukman Mustapha in establishing the high flying radio station Sobi FM Ilorin. We would have let this piece fly without reply if it had been constructive enough. However, there are some statements that are untrue and baseless that we discovered our silence may legitimate. For instance;
1. She faults Mallam Lukman for establishing a radio station SOBI FM in just a year to elections. Please, when can a man not make an investment in his land? Should we be castigating a man who thought it wise to invest in the state unlike others that forsakes it? We should bear in mind this a media platform that employed close to hundred Kwarans to carry out its operation. If other well to do sons of the soil has followed his footsteps, will the rate of unemployment amongst our youth not have reduced?
She accuses LOM of using his medium for propagation of his person and agenda through propanganda. This is unfounded and fault finding too and the facts are not farfetched as the truth needs no witness to sell. We will implore the public to disregard that as it’s clearly an assumption of the writer or anyone.
The writer will do well pointing at a program, jingle or advertisement the station runs for promotion of LOM as a personality or for his agenda and gubernatorial dreams.
2. She also faults him for dishing out Ramadan gifts to Kwarans because to her it’s stomach infrastructure approach that should be condemned and he shouldn’t have done it . I should ask you, can any one win even his LG without giving things out in a state as impoverished as Kwara? And I should tell you that it’s on record that LOM do these things every year as a proven, renowned and famous philanthropist. If someone attacks a leader for reaching out to his people such person’s motives should be scrutinised.
3. She rightly asks him to develop his own plan. We appreciate that call from her. However, Mallam Lukman is an astute academician known far and wide. He sure has proof read personal plans and initiatives . But it’s a known fact that the people should be cared for and loved. Mallam Lukman as a good man and a pious Muslim faithful, only reached out to the masses as it’s usual of him. We implore everyone to stop making mountain out of molehill on the issue.
We would do well to channel our reservations and criticism at those people that monetized politics, governance and elections.
4. Then it’s double standard to criticise a single man for what others do. Pictures abound of other politicians distributing Ramadan package but why was no one called them out yet? Yet, LOM supporters and loyalists weren’t snapped when they were given the largesse. This alone differentiate a noble man from some political jobbers. It’s an encouraging deviation from the existing way. If in fact he deserves a letter, he should be a letter of encouragement and commendation for His kindness and magnanimity. However, LOM is such a man that doesn’t want praises for things he does for the society. That’s such an altruistic man he is.
5. We would also like you to disregard the insinuations that Mallam Lukman Olayiwola is not ready for project Kwara. That’s a lie from the pit of hell. At best, such unfounded assumptions should be thrown into where they belong, political dustbin where garbages and Jabberwocky ends. LOM is up and running scheming, planning and effecting methods and ways to Rebirth Kwara with you all by 2019. Remember, LOM is a son of the soil who knows where the shoes pinches his people. We can be rest assured he wont leave us in the lurch.
6. We sincerely encourage constructive reservations, engagement and criticism of LOM. However, malicious, defamating or derogatory remarks against LOM would be treated with scorn and condemnation.
Ibraheem Abdullateef.