ONDO 2024: ILE-OLUJI AGOG AS GOV HOPEFUL, AKINTERINWA CAMPAIGNS IN HOMETOWN

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ONDO 2024: ILE-OLUJI AGOG AS GOV HOPEFUL, AKINTERINWA CAMPAIGNS IN HOMETOWN

Traditional ruler of Ile-Oluji, the Jegun of Ile-Oluji Kingdom, Oba Olawale Adetimehin and strong personalities held Mobilization Rally with natives and residents of the town in support of Wale Akinterinwa, a leading governorship aspirant in the 2024 governorship election in Ondo State.

A large crowd of natives and residents of the community had thronged the palace of the traditional ruler who poured libation and prayed for the success of the only son of the community contesting for the governorship ticket of All Progressives Congress(APC) to contest in the November 16, 2024 gubernatorial election in the state.

Oba Adetimehin declared that Akinterinwa’s aspiration is a collective project of the people of the kingdom, pledging his unflinching support for the immediate past Finance Commissioner in the state.

Thereafter, the people converged and held a town hall where they all declared their support for Akinterinwa, a financial expert.

Addressing the town hall, one of the prominent personalities in the town, Demola Akinbola said: “Basically, we are mobilizing support for our brother, our son, Mr. Wale Akinterinwa who is contesting for the ticket of APC governorship primary.

“The community has come together to show solidarity. We are solidly behind him, we support his ambition, we support his aspiration and we organize the solidarity rally to show the community’s support for him and we believe in God that he’s going to get the ticket.

“Our primary focus is this community because the aspirant himself has put in place an elaborate plan to tour all the 18 local governments and to mobilize. So, for now, we are limited to this community. However, we are ready to go with him to the nooks and crannies of this state to solicit votes.

“In other words, this solidarity rally is all about Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo local government coming together as one community to show support for his ambition and to let the whole world know that he’s capable, competent and has experience. He’s also the only one who understands governance as far as Ondo State state is concerned.

“He was Commissioner for Finance for over seven years, so, he knows the economy of the state. Looking at his achievements, he moved the IGR of the state from barely N500m to over N1.5b. This simply shows that he knows what he’s doing and if given the opportunity, he will transform the economy of the state.”

In his address, the Aro of Ile-Oluji kingdom, Chief Sola Akinterinwa explained that “one’s daughter would not possess a gorgeous waist while one adorns another person’s daughter with a waist bead.

“We are supporting him because he’s one of our own and because we feel very comfortable that he can do it because he’s been doing it for quite a while, that I know personally. I know he’s been doing this job for so long.

“So, really, this should be a piece of cake for him. Essentially, this is about our local government, it is about the state. So, some of us just feel that because we know him, let us give him all of the support that we can get from the community and that is the reason why you see everybody from this community going for him.

“As I said, the Akinterinwa has been in government for so long. He has been in government as Finance Commissioner for eight years, he worked with two governors and he’s been doing all of the developmental things that this state has benefited from. Go and look at the record of where the IGR has moved from.

“So, really we are looking for someone who is well tested, somebody who is interested in the job, somebody who is fighting to be governor and who has an idea of the economy of the state, someone who will cater for the welfare of the people, someone who values education.

“What we are doing here today is not even political, we have a group that is called Ile-Oluji Assembly and it’s all about economic development, socio-economic engineering and he’s a full member. He’s a full sponsor of this project. So, part of what we are doing today is our mandate as people pushing for the development of this community.”