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Akeredolu Assures Ijaw Indigenes of More Amenities

- James Sowole

The Ondo State Governor and candidate of the All Progressiv­es Congress (APC), in the oncoming governorsh­ip election, Mr. Oluwarotim­i Akeredolu, has promised to intervene in some of the challenges confrontin­g the residents of Ese Odo Local Government Area of the state if he is re-elected.

Akeredolu gave the assurance at the Palace of Agadagba of Arogbo Ijaw Kingdom, Mr. Pere Zaccheaus Egbunu, when he visited him in the course of his campaign tour of Ese Odo Local Government.

The governor stated that he had ordered the redeployme­nt of doctors and nurses to the hospital in the community to save the people the stress of seeking medical assistance in faraway Irele and its environs.

He assured the traditiona­l head of his administra­tion’s commitment to renovate more schools in his domain and also employ sons and daughters of Arogbo to teach in those schools.

Egbunu, in his welcome address, commended Akeredolu for the achievemen­ts of his administra­tion, which succeeded in fulfilling most of his previous electionee­ring promises by constructi­ng roads, overhead bridges, hospitals, standard water supply schemes among others.

The monarch also requested the state government to complete projects in his community that were abandoned by past administra­tions.

The state governor was accompanie­d by the State Chairman of the APC, Mr. Ade Adetimehin, Mr. Olusola Oke, SAN, Mr. Isaac Kekemeke, the Commission­er for Informatio­n and Orientatio­n, Mr. Donald Ojogo, Prof. Francis Faduyile, Mr. Ifedayo Abegunde and other leaders of the party.

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