Akeredolu’s promise to create 30,000 jobs is real, says spokesman

The Media Assistant to Chief  Rotimi Akeredolu, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate for the Ondo State gubernatorial election in October, Mr. Idowu Ajanaku, has reiterated the resolve of Akeredolu to create 30,000 jobs 100 days in the state if elected governor. 

Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN)

He was reacting to a comment by the Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the South West, Mr. Kayode Babade. Babade had said Akeredolu’s promise was only  meant to deceive the people of the state.

But in his response, Ajanaku said the ACN gubernatorial candidate meant all what he said. 

He said it was indeed a statement of honesty of purpose from a man of honour. He referred to the fulfilled promises made by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Senator Abiola Ajumobi of Oyo State to create 20,000 jobs each within the first 100 days in office all under the platform of the ACN. 

“On his part, Akeredolu promised 30,000  jobs for the teeming jobless youths because, of all the South-Western states, Ondo is the only oil-producing one,” Ajanaku said. 

Ajanaku said with the satisfaction of the people’s crying needs  as the ACN  watchword, their candidate would achieve success unlike those of the PDP. 

“The PDP ruled most of the South-West states for between eight and ten years without creating a single job. It is also on record that the erstwhile governors of Oyo and Osun, Alao-Akala and Olagunsoye Oyinlola respectively, failed the people woefully as none of them could commission a single major road during their tenure in office. 

“It was not surprising that an independent survey carried out during that infamous period showed that the South-West had the lowest Human Development Index (HDI),” he said.

Akeredolu’s  spokesman went further to state that even outside the corridors of political power, Akeredolu  has been able to  champion the cause of the down-trodden youths.