HISTORY MUST REPEAT ITSELF 'WHY OMISORE CAN NOT BECOME OSUN GOVERNOR

Herodotus, the Greek credited by many as the initiator of the discipline we refer to today as HISTORY had cause to observe that: “A person who does not know anything about the events which took place before he or she was born will remain forever a child.” We are in full agreement with the observation of the sage.

The people of Osun State in particular, and the Yorubas generally must ponder about the degeneration in quality that has resulted in a once proud people fielding their seventh or eight eleven. To continue with the soccer metaphor, it is like sending a primary school team to face the Spain team It wouldn’t make sense and it doesn’t!

Osun State at one point valiantly led the way. It produced Nigeria’s first lawyer in Christopher Alexandra Sapara Williams who hailed from Ilesa. The path breaking lawyer and nationalist was also the senior brother of Dr. Oguntolu Sapara who became Nigeria’s first medical doctor in the Western sense. Sapara Williams was called to the English bar in 1886, so we can see that Osun State has far long been a trail blazer.