AREGBESOLA: A governor’s craving for Saheed Osupa

When you walk into the office of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Executive Governor of the State of Osun (as he loves to be addressed), chances are that you would meet him attending one meeting or the other with stakeholders in the state;or his head buried in a mountain of files that are jostling for his attention; or his bespectacled eyes fixed on his personal computer; or he is listening to the fuji music of Saheed Osupa after a hard-day’s job. While Ogbeni Aregbesola is known to admire a broad spectrum of music, the governor’s love for Saheed Osupa is said to be legendary; so much so that he sings along whenever he hears the music of the fuji artiste. If the information coming from the fuji music circle is anything to go by, the former Commissioner for Works in Lagos State during the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu tenure as governor, will have much more of the talentedmusician’s songs to sing in the coming days. A reliable source close to the award-winning musician says he is in the studio waxing an album in celebration of the Ogbeni’s exploits as governor of the Living Spring. Reminiscent of the album he did for Governor Babatunde Fashola in the run up to the 2011 governorship elections, in which he eulogised the governor’s achievements in his first term and also campaigned for his second term, Osupa is reportedly set to release a full album for Aregbesola’s re-election bid, while he will also be dropping a promotional tape on ‘Opon Imo’ (tablet of knowledge); Aregbesola’s recent initiative gearedtowards improving the educational standard of Osun State and promoting computer literacy amongstudents and teachers in the state.