A leading member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, Dr. Adekunle Akindele, has unleashed scathing criticism on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), accusing the party of abysmal failure in governance since taking over the state. In an interview published in the New Telegraph on Sunday, Akindele also assured the people of the preparedness of the PDP candidate in the November 16th gubernatorial election, Hon. Agboola Ajayi to restore the lost glory of the State.
Akindele, a former Osun State PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, said "I can describe our candidate, His Excellency, Agboola Ajayi as a politician who has seen it all in terms of governance. If you look at his trajectory, he started as a councilor; he later became a local government chairman, a member of the House of Representatives, and of course, a Deputy Governor of our state. So he has the credential. And one thing that he has going for him is that he is a grassroots politician. This is a man who has never for once lived outside Ondo State, except when he was in Abuja to represent his constituency at the Green Chamber. So I’m very confident that he will do well, because when you live among the people, you understand them, you know their worries and you know what it takes to resolve it."
"Unlike the APC that brought in Lucky Ayedatiwa. He is an alien. Until now, I never heard about him until he became Deputy Governor of the state. So these are people that do not really have any relationship with our people. And I see them as aliens, and of course, you will agree with me that all their actions and inactions will be geared towards doing the will of their pay masters. So, Agboola Ajayi is a man who is after the heart of the people, and a man that the people are waiting for to make the fortunes of Ondo people better. You see, governance is no rocket science. If somebody has gone through those stages of governance, you should know that this is man that is tested and well prepared to ensure that this hardship in the land, this poverty that they are all going through is at least reduced to an extent."
While lamenting the state of the health sector , Akindele said "Outside the roads that are bad, I don’t want to go to the health sector in the state where there are few doctors. Infrastructures are dead, most of them, for example, the General Hospital in Okitipupa, doesn’t even have light at night, the doctors can barely work. These are issues that a very responsible and responsive governor should attend to, but he is busy appointing needless and countless numbers of Special Advisers and Personal Assistants. His own agenda for the people are quite different. His coming to power is an aberration and we are hoping that by November 16, we will send him out of the Government House." he added
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