By HC Ade
Literally, want is a desire to possess or do something; it is a desire or a wish for something that is not essential for survival but is considered desirable or enjoyable. Wants are often driven by personal preferences, cultural influences, and individual aspirations. Wants are discretionary and driven by personal desires.
While need on its own is something required for a safe, stable, and healthy life. Need is a fundamental requirement or necessity that is essential for human survival, well-being, or quality of life. While needs are essential, wants are desirable but not necessary.
What Ekiti needs come 2026 differs from what the system wants for us; what we need is not just a governor with leadership capacity, but a leader with the capacity to govern and unify us across all the political party lines and strata. Ekiti State needs a selfless leader, instead of a governor ready to nosedive and focus our meagre resources on all critical areas of our development that can rejuvenate our economic emancipation so it can gradually become one of the enviable best in the whole South West and the nation at large.
Come 2026, Ekiti State needs, among other things, someone with:
Capacity
Ekiti State needs a person with a track record of performance with the capacity to make tough and difficult long-term and short-term decisions towards the overall interest of the State.
Capability
Ekiti State does not just want someone with capability but someone with the ability and power, with intuition and creativity to do something unusual in the overall interest of the entire state.
Competence
Competence comes from tested and trusted experience, out of successful tutelage and apprenticeship.
All the above are a few of the most critical unique qualities that make Governor Abiodun Oyebanji.
Come 2026, what Ekiti State craves and needs is a leader with the capacity to govern the State aright. Governor Abiodun Oyebanji has so far proven to be a leader with experience, capacity, capability, and competence, resulting in overwhelming street credibility.
Ekiti State, no doubt, can only get better with political stability built on consistency and continuity of democratic values to continue to stimulate the economy towards the overall interest of the common man.
HC Ade writes from Atinkankan, Ado Ekiti, for Oyebanji Street Vanguard (OSV)