Ogun APC chairmanship aspirant pledges massive investment in agriculture

...Engages Abeokuta tailors to produce 20,000 face masks

Ahead of next year local government polls in Ogun state, Lanre OyegbolaSodipo, an All Progressives Congress (APC), aspirant for Abeokuta North Local Government, has pledged to initiate a dedicated programme that revisits agriculture and agribusiness as part of effort to generate employment and create wealth within the local council.

Oyegbola-sodipo, an APC aspirant, who is of Oke-ona extraction of Egba-abeokuta on Saturday, kick-started his political mission to liberate and empower many people at the local area, especially the women and jobless youths with various vocations and engagements, saying: “it is time to get back to agriculture and agribusiness as 90percent of our population in Abeokuta North that covers Oke-ona, Gbagura, Owu and Oke-ogun are farmers, we must empower them appropriately.”

While launching #Mask4all Campaign as a prelude to the main political campaign in Abeokuta, Oyegbola-sodipo also known as LOS, presented 20,000 free homemade face masks to many residents of the local government area as complementary to the Governor Dapo Abiodun administration’s efforts aimed at curtailing the communal spread of Covid-19 and empowering the women and youths at the handover ceremony held in Abeokuta on Saturday.

“We moved the project (#Mask4all) to Abeokuta North Local Government in order to empower 80 local tailors, who were commissioned and fully paid to deliver 20,000 face masks. Today, we are here to begin the distribution of the face masks among the 16 wards of the local government”, he said.

The focus of this initiative is multi - dimensional; the first is to bring succour to the vulnerable who cannot afford the face masks. The second is to empower our women and youths; tailors were trained and employed to sew the masks so as to earn an income, thereby creating jobs and the third, is to help prevent the spread of the Corona virus.

While handing over the face masks to each representative of the 16 wards, the chairmanship aspirant assured the people of deploying more home grown, innovative solutions that will create wealth, engender development and address the challenges facing the people by prioritising feasible economic expansion, agriculture, industrialisation, job creation and welfare across all parts of the local government, if elected.

Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Prince Adeniyi Edun, an APC leader lauded Oyegbola-sodipo for the laudable initiative and his agenda which prioritises the vulnerable in the society, just as he urged all the attendees to join in the fight against coronavirus and ensure that the most vulnerable takes a centre stage in every action or plan.