Ondo LP, ACN trade words, Oke to complete Agagu’s projects

CAMPAIGN for votes in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State continued at the weekend with the political parties unveiling their plans for a better state, just as some engaged in altercation over who will win the polls.

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olusola Oke, pledged early completion of all the projects embarked upon by former governor, Dr Olusegun Agagu, in Akure, the state capital but which were allegedly abandoned by the incumbent Labour Party (LP) administration.

Also apparently referring to Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s earlier remarks that he (Oke) was not prepared for governance, the PDP candidate said he had always been ready to give leadership to the people of the state at any given opportunity.

Oke spoke as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) took on a chieftain of LP, Chief Segun Ojo, who allegedly predicted failure of the ACN at the election.

Meanwhile, the Mimiko campaign train moves to Akoko South West Local Council today after the kick off in Owo last Thursday.

Oke, who specifically mentioned the two stadia in the state capital, made his pledge at the weekend while on a campaign tour of wards in Akure South Council. He enjoined the electorate to vote for him and his PDP platform, promising the people of the town speedy completion of the rehabilitation of the old Akure township stadium so that the state-owned football clubs would not go to Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State to play their home matches.

Oke also promised to make the Owena Multipurpose Dam function so that it could provide potable water for the people of Akure and other five local councils within the senatorial district.

Ojo, a former Commissioner of Finance and erstwhile governorship aspirant on the platform of the ACN, had foreclosed the possibility of ACN victory. Ojo, who is now back to the LP, which he helped to found before he parted ways with Mimiko in the wake of the constitution of the state Executive Council, specifically mentioned the process through which Akeredolu emerged as the bane of the party in the state “because those who really worked for the growth of ACN were sent away by that undemocratic action.”

But in a swift reaction, the Akeredolu Campaign Organisation described the exit of Ojo to LP as good riddance.