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‘PDC will bring positive change to Ondo’

By Niyi Bello
18 November 2016   |   1:04 am
Candidate of People for Democratic Change (PDC) in next week’s governorship election in Ondo State, Mr. Segun Odidi has promised that his party would ensure a new lease ...
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Candidate of People for Democratic Change (PDC) in next week’s governorship election in Ondo State, Mr. Segun Odidi has promised that his party would ensure a new lease of life for the people of the state.

According to Odidi who spoke in an interview with The Guardian, “our party is ready to bring the desired positive change in all the facets of public life in Ondo State.”

He said although his platform is small when compared to the major political parties, it should be given the opportunity to serve because “this is not the time to think about big names or big parties but the time to think about the well-being of our people. The big names have failed us.”

Unfolding his manifesto, Odidi who had been a frontline member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said, “We shall industrialise the state for the good of the people. We shall go into public/private partnerships with viable investors to revamp some of our ailing industries and also build more. The bitumen deposit in the state will receive attention, as our government will partner with the Federal Government and investors to breathe life into it.

“In Nigeria, maintenance culture is one of our major problems. We will establish a special agency that will cater for monitoring and repairing existing government infrastructures. We will build roads in all parts of the state and we shall see the need for all towns and villages without supply of electricity to be joined to the national grid. We shall provide potable drinking water to all the towns and villages and we shall empower market men and women by giving them loans with little or no interest. We shall also create jobs for our teeming youths and we shall complete all projects inherited from our predecessor for the good of our people.”

Speaking on his plan to develop the agriculture sector, Odidi, who hails from Igbotako in Okitipupa local council of the state’s southern senatorial district said priority attention shall be given to the sector.

According to him, “We shall make the state the food basket of the nation as we will deliberately give our farmers the desired attention. We shall create conducive atmosphere for our farmers to thrive and we shall give them soft loans to encourage them and give them fertilizer, grains and other farm inputs at very considerable rates.

“We shall partner with them and also encourage our teeming youths to embrace farming and we will give them all the supports while all the rural roads that lead to major farms will be tarred to enable our farmers move their goods with ease.”

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