Ondo Guber: Group rallies support for Akeredolu’s re-election bid

Ondo Guber: Group rallies support for Akeredolu’s re-election bid

By Lanre Oloyede

A group under the auspices of Ondo State Professionals Forum, Abuja (OSPFA) has called on all sons and daughters of Ondo residing in the Federal Capital Territory and the diaspora to support the re-election bid of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for the greater benefit of the entire people of the State.

The Forum made up of selected professionals of Ondo extraction drawn from different walks of life said its position was informed by the need to sustain the current momentum of development being piloted by the governor.

In a press statement themed: “Sustaining the Uncommon Strides in Ondo State” and co-signed by its Chairman, Architect Tunde Imolehin and Secretary, Mr Dele Fulani, the group stressed that there was need to consolidate on the monumental achievements that have been recorded by the current administration in the areas of infrastructural development, youths empowerment, job creation, wealth creation and industrialization.

“When you talk of infrastructural development, Governor Akeredolu has literarily transformed the hitherto hard-to-reach rural areas of the State into modern cities through massive construction of state-of-the-art access roads, storm water drains, overhead bridges, provision of rural electrification, potable water supply among many others too numerous to mention,” the group averred.

It added that, though its position does not disregard the rights of other citizens to aspire for any position of their choice in the state, its motive for mobilizing support for the governor’s second term bid however became more necessary because of the need to forestall the ill-fate that usually befall people oriented projects set in motion by a one-term governor in the event of premature change of government.

“Apparently, we all eknow from experience that premature change of government in Nigeria is usually characterized with lack of continuity in governance. As it is the practice, instead of continuing with the development trajectory he or she met on ground, every successor would rather crave for his own new 7-point agenda while the predecessor’s projects are either discontinued, abandoned or cancelled outrightly. At the end, it is the innocent taxpayer citizens of the State that bear the brunt.  We cannot allow all these uncommon achievements of the Governor to be rubbished on the altar of political expediency,” the group asserted.

The forum however stressed that it remains committed to supporting the continuity project of the governor with all resources at its disposal including intellect, clouts, cash and kind.