Omobolaji Adekunle
The Governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress, ADC, Barrister Biyi Otegbeye, said his vision is to fix Ogun state by creating opportunity for all through his five cardinal agenda.
Otegbeye while speaking with journalist in Abeokuta in his resident said if he is elected as the governor of ogun state he would ensure that his five points Agenda of infrastructure,Adequate health care, Education, Agriculture and job creation are priority.
He also reacted to the extension of Governorship and State House of Assembly Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) to March 18.
Otegbeye, said that the postponement was legitimate because it would allow the electoral body to reformat its Bimodal Voter Authentication System (BVAS) for better poll of the election.on whether the extension affected him which he said no, saying it would only give opportunity to take his campaign train the remaining 46 wards out of the 236 wards in the state
To him, the postponement of the elections by INEC, was not convenient, but was done to avoid errors from the BVAS and ensure Nigerians have a free, fair and credible conduct of the Governorship and State House of Assembly polls on March 18.
He said “For me, INEC did not just do this overnight this, this was a fall out of the court case about reformating the BIVAS in readiness of the election. And INEC said they have 167,000 or 197 000 BIVAS and it will take them time to reformats the BVAS and that makes a lot of sense and what can you do about that.”
“So the reason for postponement is legitimate and to an extent that is what they want to achieve, when you have a legitimate thing for good you just have to abide with it and respect it. Is it convenient, of course you will need to work more you will need to spend more of course those inconveniences are there.” he noted
The governorship candidate, who said that he would campaign till the last day that INEC permits, said that he was in the race to save the people from the hardship of the All Progressive Party(APC) led government of Dapo Abiodun, insisting he was confident of victory.
He said that Abiodun over the three and half years of his administration failed to meet the yearnings and aspirations of the people, while appealing to the electorates to vote for him and other candidates of the party in the forthcoming elections in order to have a new Ogun State.
“Yes! I am in this election to win it and thankfully the people of Ogun State, are united on one thing that the present administration has not benefited them. We have visited 190 out of the 236 wards and with this extension i still intend to cover them so i have sold our agenda to them and i believe the people will receive our agenda”
He appealed to people of ogun state to come and vote ADC and they should make ensure their vote counted and to prevent rigging and fraud. African Democratic Congress (ADC) will do things better and make sure the prosperity of our state is collective share.
