The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Oct. 20 election, Olusola Oke, has said his government will bring primary school facilities closer to the masses.
Oke said this at the local government rally of the PDP at Ore, in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.
“Our administration will employ more teachers and bring primary schools closer to the electorate. I will do so in line with the United Nations education for all campaign. Our children will only walk five minutes to their respective schools if we are voted into power,” he said.
The lawyer said Governor Olusegun Mimiko had built only two primary schools in over 45 months.
He said, “We will build more classrooms across the state and spend more on capacity building for our teachers. This, I strongly believe, is important than one big structure that has badly altered the UN education for all campaign.”
The PDP candidate said he was prepared to make the necessary sacrifices in leadership that would transform the economy of the state and its people.
He said the state was blessed with the needed human and natural resources that could be used to drive its development.
Oke stated that leadership with defined focus was required to deliver good governance that would have positive impact on the people.
At Bolorunduro, Ondo East LGA, Oke said it would be difficult for the state to grow economically under its present state of encumbrance.
He said the cost of financing the state debt had stalled economic growth of all the LGAs in the state.
He criticised the incumbent over what he described as a high debt profile, economically unfriendly interest rate and an over-bloated administration.
He said the state ought to divert its resources to activities that would open up its economy so that it could work with other states’ economies to attain synergy.
“I have gone round the state, I have visited the 203 wards in the state, what I saw is misplacement of priorities and display of cosmetics. At this critical stage of our development, our resources should not be splashed on town halls, old market stalls and other intangibles.
“We need to move fast on the track of employment provision, delivery of quality education and reduction of government overheads so as to attain sustainable development. We need urgent intervention on the critical areas of our development. These, we shall do for our people,” he said.
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