As Ogun 2027 approaches, the Vanguard Response Network calls on voters across Egba, Yewa, Ijebu, and Remo to judge every candidate using the Omoluabi Benchmark:
1. Stewardship & Origin: Are they rooted in Ogun, or only present during elections?
2. Transparency: Is their record built on open governance or opaque deals?
3. Homegrown Equity: Do they empower local leaders or bypass them for external backing?
4. Moral Authority: Do they embody the character and integrity of our historic leaders?
@Bayoradegboyega@ogun_updates 5/5
Reject project diversion. Reject tokenism. Stand firm, protect our patrimony, and demand true accountability. Ogun State deserves a real native—our collective destiny is not for sale!
— Vanguard Response Network (VRN)
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To the sons & daughters of Ogun State—from Abeokuta to Yewa, Awori, Remo, & Ijebu: Reject this politics of appropriation.
Ogun is our commonwealth, not a playground for political tourists. Past project manipulation proves trusting them with our treasury threatens our heritage.
@Bayoradegboyega@ogun_updates 3/5
The impact on Ogun State:
• Indigenous needs abandoned: essential healthcare & school projects traded off for elite loyalties.
• "Used & dumped" mindset: voters courted with tokenism, then abandoned.
• Fiscal collapse: budgets dictated by political whim, not strategy.
@Bayoradegboyega@ogun_updates 2/5
Using public resources as personal political currency sets a dangerous precedent. Diverting projects to curry favor trains administration to view public funds as political loot to share among allies, rather than a sacred commonwealth for systematic development.
@Bayoradegboyega@ogun_updates 1/1 When political leaders bypass transparent tracking, it institutionalizes opacity. Shifting project descriptions for optics destroys accountability. What begins as creative budgetary labeling rapidly turns into total abandonment of institutional oversight.
OGUN 2027: THE RECKONING AND THE RECLAIMING OF OUR SOUL
Day before yesterday, Vanguard Response Network (VRN) exposed the historical distortion and the attempt to reduce the leadership of our historic state to an imported political transaction.
We must demand leaders who embody the true spirit of Ọmọluabi—those whose roots are deep in our soil, whose loyalties are to our people, and whose vision is built on integrity rather than transaction.
Ogun is not an estate to be acquired.
Ogun is a heritage to be defended.
The ultimate power does not belong to financial strategists or backroom power brokers; it belongs to the ordinary people of Ogun State who will step up to the ballot box.
When the political foundation of one region is eroded by money politics, the sovereignty of the entire state is compromised.
A political primary or a caucus declaration is not the end of the story.
To suggest that Yewa’s long-standing dream can only be realized by importing political actors is an insult to the intelligence of every Yewa son and daughter.
And to Egba, Ijebu, and Remo: apathy is a luxury we cannot afford.
But true emancipation for Yewa cannot—and must not—be built on political amnesia or external dependency. Yewaland boasts eminent, capable, and tested homegrown leaders who have stood with their people through thick and thin.
We risk accepting that Ogun State has become a political vassal, where candidates are groomed elsewhere and exported to rule over us.
Let it be stated clearly: Equity for Yewaland is non-negotiable. The agitation for an Ogun West governorship is just, overdue, and legitimate.