• Says move campaign strategy to deceive Ondo people
• Laments high rate of out-of-school children
• NDDC’s ex-commissioner, others dump APC for PDP
• Gov flags off construction of 3.5km road in Ilaje
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has lashed out at Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa for allegedly playing politics with the education of public primary school pupils in the state.
According to the opposition party, the recent approval of N3.5 billion by the governor for the renovation of primary schools in the state ought to have been done before the resumption of pupils if Aiyedatiwa was sincere about the education sector.
In a statement, yesterday, by its Publicity Secretary, Kennedy Peretei, the PDP, while describing the move as a campaign strategy to sway the people ahead of the forthcoming November 16 governorship poll, said that under the current administration in the state, the education sector had been nose-diving with the data of out-of-school children now at 250,000.
IN another development, a former representative of Ondo State on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Benson Enikuomehin, has dumped the ruling APC for the opposition PDP ahead of the forthcoming November 16, 2024 governorship election in the state. He defected to the APC, yesterday, along with over 200 of his supporters in Ilaje Local Council of the state.
Enikuomehin, while speaking during a rally held in Omonira in the council area of the state, said that the APC had destroyed all the tenets of democratic principles.
MEANWHILE, Aiyedatiwa, yesterday, flagged off the construction of the 3.5-kilometre Ebute Ipare-Oke Road in Ilaje Local Council of the state as part of efforts to boost food security in the state.
According to the governor, his administration will focus on transforming rural areas through infrastructure projects, especially road construction and rehabilitation.
The governor, who described agriculture as the backbone of the state’s economy, emphasised its vital role in sustaining citizens’ livelihoods and driving economic growth.
Aiyedatiwa, who attributed the success of rural projects to the state’s timely payment of counterpart funds for the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP), a collaboration with the World Bank and the French Development Agency, assured the residents of Ilaje that the new road would help to address the economic gap between rural and urban areas by facilitating smoother transportation and creating opportunities for local farmers. He, however, announced the establishment of nine agro-logistics centres across the three senatorial districts.
