About fifty governorship aspirants within the ruling All Progressives Congress in Oyo State have shown interest in vying for the exalted office in the 2019 elections.
This was disclosed Tuesday by the party’s state Chairman, Chief Akin Oke at the Secretariat of the party at Oke Ado during the declaration of interest by one of the contestants, Prof Soji Adejumo.
The party chairman said out of the fifty governorship aspirants, only 10 of them have made their interest known to the party.
Prof. David Olusoji Adejumo said if he becomes the governor, no external farmer will bring in herds into the state without a licence approved by the law.
Adejumo, the governorship hopeful, who is a Professor of Animal Science stressed “the issue of national cattle herding transformation is good, but the framework must be transparent and publicly presented to the citizenry for appraisal and consent”.
He disclosed that within three months of his administration, he would agree a framework with all farmers’ groups in the state to agree on the state’s five-year strategic agricultural land use and development programme, which shall be backed by an Edict of the State House of Assembly and made into a state law.
“The economic advantages in terms of employment, infrastructure and internal revenue generation will be publicly displayed to enable the citizenry approve and own the programme”, he added.
In his road map for the state should he be given the party’s ticket and eventually become the state governor, Adejumo highlighted education, economy, youths and entrepreneurship, transportation, agriculture and cattle ranching and herdsmen menace as his priorities.
The governorship hopeful stated further that “my decision to seek political office is to boldly tackle the myth of Nigeria as a doomed nation and by extension Oyo State as a dependant appendage incapable of its own independent economic existence.
Contrary to this notion, I intend to make Oyo State an economically independent state with an integrated southwest region that will emerge in a restructured state with powers shared equitably and proportionally based on naturally and artificially vested resources”, Prof. Adejumo assured.
