By Gbenga Sodeinde
Frontline All Progressives Congress APC Senatorial aspirant for Ondo South Senatorial District, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim has vowed to end the prolong power outrage in most towns and villages in the South as his first assignment as Senator representing the district if elected on February, 2023 General Elections.
The billionaire businessman and holder of two national honours, OFR, CFR made the declaration at a meeting held with over 280 delegates in the coming Friday Senatorial Primary of APC, on Tuesday, 24th May, at The University of Fortune, Igbotako.
The founder of Fortune University, Igbotako and business mogul begged the delegates for their on Friday, stressing that he would use his wealth of experience, National and international connections to attract both human and infrastructure developments to the districts.
His words; “My first assignment as your Senator when your votes take me to the Senate is to sponsor a bill declaring a State of Emergency on the unfortunate 20 year old power outrage in Ondo South Senatorial District.
“There is also the need for our party to present a candidate with capacity and capability to win the Senate seat for APC from the incumbent from the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
“The Senate seat is our ticket to get the next Governorship slot in 2025, because it will be pretty difficult for the South to claim the Governorship seat without a sitting APC Senator from the district; rather, it will go to a district with APC Senator.”
Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim, who is also the Araba of Ikaleland, held a fruitful deliberation with the Ondo South APC delegates at The Faculty of Law Lecture theater of the Fortune University, an architectural masterpiece by international standard.
Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim said; “the about two decades lightout in some parts of Ondo South which has put the district out of the national grid is not meant to be”, adding that a sponsored bill by a Senator who can easily connect with the leadership of the National Assembly will do the magic and as soon as it becomes a bill , he will ensure that the Senate which he will be a ranking member of its leadership caucus as a CFR will make the bill to become a Law that the President whom he easily has access to will endorse in no time.
The APC trailblazer and leading light of the ruling party in Ondo State promised that women will not be left out of his development scheme. He assured the women of the District that 25% of his salary will go to taking care of their welfare.
Ibrahim lamented the failed state of mega projects status in Nigeria, stressing that when he gets to the Senate he will sponsor the Bill, setting up of mega projects assessment committee as the committee will put an end to the mismanagement of mega projects spread across the country, which have all become conduit pipes through which tax payers money are siphoned.
While assuring the delegates that he means well and he is assesible, the Igbotako born politician said the University he has established will not be beyond the reach of students of Ondo South at completion, adding that if students from outside the state are paying tuition fee that is high, those from the Ondo South will just be paying half of the tuition fee.
”I am bringing this citadel of learning of international standard to my homestead, Igbotako because I want to contribute to immediate community and humanity. My family is not here so it’s not as if I am building this educational edifice because of my children but I am building it for the use of humanity and it is going to put Ondo South on the global stage and reckoning.
“I am for the development of Ondo South Senatorial District, I do not have any other district to call my own except this my dear Ondo South and I have the financial capacity, the intellectual wherewithal and the economic means as well as the required link and leverage to put dots of verifiable development in Ondo South Senatorial District.
“As your son, your brother and your leading aspirant of this great party, I have come to seek your votes, I have come to persuade you to give me your votes on Friday.
“I have come to sell my candidacy and make you see that I have the courage of my conviction to be your Senator because our District needs a bold, high ranking Senator and by the virtue of my honour as a Commander of the Order, Federal Republic (CFR), I am the best aspirant of our party and the most suitable candidate for the job,” Jimoh Ibrahim stated.
He charged the delegates to look for Jimoh Ibrahim on the ballot paper on Friday and not Araba, noting that Araba is his title and and Jimoh Ibrahim is his name.
Jimoh Ibrahim thanked all the Delegates for coming to the parley and for their anticipated support at the APC primary on Friday.
Welcoming the delegates, the Director-General of Jimoh Ibrahim Senatorial Campaign Organisation, JISCO, Dr. Yemi Ayodele, told the delegates at the parley with Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim that good things are coming to Ondo South and the harbinger of the development that are forthcoming is Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim who is making genuine effort to represent the district at the 10th Senate.
The DG told the delegates that Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim has a master plan for holistic development of the entire Southern Senatorial District and execute the master plan in the first two years of his membership of the Senate.
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