Following his assent to a bill for change of the Osun state logo, Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed that holding of the state logo crafting competition should be held between April 19th and 26th.,
The governor’s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed who made this known in a statement in Osogbo, however, advised those submitting a design to take into account the prototype logo in terms of its contents and style.
The statement said, “The submission can be made in person both soft and printed copy to the Office of the Commissioner, Ministry of Information and Public Enlightenment while, entries can also be submitted online via [email protected] or [email protected], with bio-data and contact details of the designer and he subject should be with the subject “OSUN STATE LOGO.
“The best design will be announced on April 28 and will be unveiled on April 30th during the new edition of Ipade Imole.”
Commenting on the one-week competition, Governor Adeleke noted: “As a listening leader, I have asked that we open the change of logo to more public input through this one-week competition.
“The best three designers will be invited and compensated, he concluded.
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Meanwhile, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has kicked against the new logo presented by the state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, describing it as far below what a state logo should be.
The state chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, Thursday, stated that “he would have been surprised if Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers have got it right this time around on the issue of the badly packaged logo.”
Lawal questioned why a “coordinated Chief executive of a state have the temerity and audacity to present a logo that looks like an herbalist’s mystic, nebulous and indistinguishable item as the official logo of the state.”
He said that he was convinced without any reasonable doubt that the poor logo presented to the public was one of the adverse effects of non-holding regular state executive meetings where each of the commissioners and Special Advisers would have had the latitude to critique the herbalist tray before it was presented to the public.
The state APC chairman explained that he believed that it could not be all the members of the state executive council that would not know that apart from the fact that the herbalist’s tray called logo presented by the governor is clumsy, its aesthetic value is below zero which is not expected from a primary six art student.
Lawal pointed out that apart from the fact that the change of the state logo is a misplaced priority when hunger is taking its toll on the people of the state due to the hoarding of the Federal Government’s palliatives in cash and food items, running into billions of naira by Adeleke, it is a total wastage of the state resources.
He observed that there’s hardly any difference between “the shrine erected in front of the state secretariat, for which billions of naira was expended on, but which could not stand the test of time.”
Lawal noted that the traditional tray which should be withdrawn without delay is grossly deficient in the exhibition of an artistic standard which has made it a source of disgrace and a laughing stock among the comity of states in Nigeria.
In the words of the state APC chairman: “It is not our concern or business for you to have embarked on the total deletion of the legacies of your clandestine political mentor, but the fact remains that we, as a party, won’t open our eyes and watching you destroying our common patrimony.
“The episode of the junky, mediocre, rubbishy, shoddy and trash called a logo in the estimation of Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers is an indication that they are making the state a laboratory because of lack of not knowing what to do by the Chief driver of the state who has totally abdicated his statutory duties for mundane issues that won’t impact positively on the lives of the people of the state.
“If a state executive can find it impossible to know and present a befitting state logo, it is a confirmation that his much-touted N100 billion infra projects would be a mere mirage which would die before delivery.
“Our position as a party is that changing of the state logo should not be the priority of any serious and thinking government by this time in the history of the state when the citizenry are finding it difficult to afford three square meals due to the obvious sleazy and gimcrack policies of the government”, Lawal stated.
