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Ondo: l’ll focus on education, industrialization – Guber aspirant

An aspirant for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket in Ondo State, Prince Okunjimi Odimayo has stated that his major focus as a governor would be on education.
The aspirant, who spoke at the National Headquarters of the APC in Abuja Thursday, said also that he would give attention to the industrialisation of the state, to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths.
Odimayo is among the five aspirants that have obtained the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for the APC governirship ticket at the cost of N22.5 million.
Speaking further, the aspirant, who said he has a 5-Point Developmental Agenda to be pursued by his administration if elected as the governor in the October 10, 2020 Governorship Election in the state, pledged of good and qualitative governance.
He said the 5-point agenda would encompass free and quantitative education, quality healthcare services, infrastructural development, merchandise agriculture and industrialisation and Good governance and accountability.
According to him, education has been the major industry and vocation in Ondo State since the creation of the state in 1978, and has been the main strength for modern human capital development and deployable for modern agricultural and other industrial businesses and enterprises.
“I promised to guarantee improved funding far and above of what is obtainable at present, so as to use the state resources for free and compulsory education at primary and secondary levels just like the days of late progressive leaders, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Pa. Michael Adekunle Ajasin.”

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