I ‘ll industrialise Ondo if elected as governor — Kekemeke
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).