The Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Candidate, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has said the state and its people have not fared well under the ruling All Progressives Congress in the last eight years.
This as he vowed to rescue the state from the shackles of poverty, oppression, deprivation and insecurity.
Ajayi in contrast boast that if elected his government in four years “would be like 12 years.”
The PDP candidate said this at a media parley on Friday in Lagos.
He said that Governor Lucky Ayedatiwa and the APC governorship candidate for November 16 gubernatorial election had not delivered on promises.
Ajayi, a former deputy governor in the state, said: “The primary objective of governance is the safety and welfare of the people.
“Any political party that deviates from this avowed principle of governance will definitely get it wrong and become a liability to the people. I have a clear vision on how to make it works.”
He said the immediate past governor of the state, late Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, left many problems behind, and that those problems had worsened under Ayedatiwa, the former late governor’s deputy, who took over after his demise.
“The November 16 governorship election in the state therefore calls for serious consideration as this will determine, shape or mar the fortune of the State in the next four years,” he said.
Expressing disappointment in the conduct and outcome of the September 21 governorship election in Edo, Ajayi said that democracy would not thrive where a simple exercise of election turned to imposition.
According to him, those who are constitutionally empowered to protect Nigerians and ensure that the right things are done during election at every given time must not disappoint voters.
He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to allow the vote of the people count in the forthcoming election in Ondo.
Highlighting his agenda if elected, Ajayi said his vision was to transform Ondo State into a beacon of sustainable economic development.
Ajayi said that his intervention would cover modern infrastructure, efficient transportation, a vibrant marine and blue economy, striving agriculture, robust industrialisation, quality education and affordable health care
Ajayi said that his vision would capture comprehensive human development, adequate security, and other components of fundamental objectives and direct principles of state policy as captured in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
“It is, therefore, my mission to harness the state’s human and material resources to actualise this vision and thereby rescue and redeem the people of the Sunshine State.
“We will rescue the state from the shackles of poverty, oppression, deprivation and insecurity and set them on the path of sustainable development so that the sun will shine again in the State,” he said.
