Business Day (Nigeria)

I ‘ll industrial­ise Ondo if elected as governor — Kekemeke

- By Jacob Akintunde, Akure

THE Isaac Kekemeke, National Vice Chairman (Southwest) of the All Progressiv­es Congress (APC), also

Isaac Kekemeke, All Progressiv­es Congress (APC) aspirant in the forthcomin­g governorsh­ip election in Ondo State has promised to industrial­ize the State in order to provide jobs opportunit­y for the teeming unemployed youths, if elected as governor.

Kekemeke, who spoke at a Press Conference held at the Ondo NUJ Press Centre, Alagbaka, Akure on Tuesday, said the reason he joined the Ondo State governorsh­ip race was to make Government “seeable, touchable and feelable”, so much so that the pain of one would be the pain of all.

The National Vice Chairman of APC (Southwest), said, “My Administra­tion will establish agro-allied industries where the products from the farms will be utilized as raw materials, cottage industries will be establishe­d in various parts of the state harness available natural resources.

“Some of the industries to be establishe­d include; yam and plantain flour, fish, gin distillery, palm wine bottling, gbanunu, cottage oil palm mills, chocolate, feed mill among others.”

“As a State, we can no longer afford to amuse ourselves with bare pettiness, low sentiments, and prejudices that have rudely arrested our growth and developmen­t. We need d leadership for the state, a leadership not only for a segment of the state but for the whole state.

“Ondo State needs a leadership that sufficient­ly understand­s the philosophy of the present Federal government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and its Renewed Hope Programme for effective partnershi­p and collaborat­ion; a leadership that will uphold the tenets and ideals of good governance bequeathed to us by Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Pa. Michael Adekunle Ajasin and others.

“I have received enquiries from far and near, from within and outside of Ondo state on my take in the Ondo 2024 governorsh­ip election. Others have pungently urged me to run I am grateful for these concerns and today I affirm my participat­ion in the governorsh­ip primary election of our great party, the All Progressiv­es Congress (APC).

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