The All Progressives Congress (APC) State Publicity Secretaries have converged in Akure, the Ondo State capital to strategize ahead of the governorship elections coming up in the State and Edo State.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) State Publicity Secretaries have converged in Akure, the Ondo State capital to strategize ahead of the governorship elections coming up in the State and Edo State.
Omo'ba Abayomi Adesanya, the Publicity Secretary of the Party in Ondo State, noted that the image markers have already been looking inward on the propagation of the Party's ideas and ideology to the people.
SaharaReporters correspondent gathered that the party's Publicity Secretary in Edo state, Godwin Erhahon, his counterpart from Osun state, Morakinyo Akintola, and Taiwo Olatubosun from Ekiti State were in attendance at the meeting held in Akure.
Speaking shortly after the meeting, Mr. Adesanya said the publicists were in Akure to strategize towards winning the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States, to install a progressive and people's government in power.
"This meeting is camaraderie, strategic and sacrosanct towards winning the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in the states (Edo and Ondo).
"Like what we have in Edo and Osun which the immediate past APC government in Ekiti, under Kayode Fayemi symbolized, we want to install a progressive and people's government in Ondo State", he said.
Godwin Erhahon, the Edo State APC publicist revealed that they were ready to join hands with the Ondo State chapter of the Party to end the misrule of Governor Olusegun Mimiko, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Mr. Erhahon decried Ondo State has not benefitted from the 13% Derivative Funds being managed by Ondo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC).
"Ondo is richer than Edo State, yet Edo State Oil and Gas Mineral Producing Area Development Commission (EDSOMPADEC) has judiciously managed the 13% Oil Derivative Funds to build over 600 kilometers of roads, 90 world class secondary schools, across Edo State," Mr. Erhahon stated.
He added that given Ondo State’s status as an oil and gas producing-State there is no excuse for the infrastructural deficit, high rate of unemployment, economic downturn, and non-payment of workers’ salaries.
Morakinyo Akintola, Osun State Spokesman of the Party, appealed for unity and peace among leaders and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State and recognized the importance of Ondo State in the collective economic development of the southwest.
"My interaction with people since I entered the State shows that, te people are tired of the present government- there is a need for drastic change,” Mr. Akintola stated.
Contributing to the conversation, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the spokesperson for the Party in Ekiti State, urged the electorates in Ondo State to shine their eyes and avoid selling their votes in order to not repeat a big mistake in Ekiti State which saw the emergence of the embattled Governor Ayodele Fayose.
"Don't repeat the mistakes made in Ekiti during the last general elections that saw Ayodele Fayose becoming the governor", he said.