As Ondo gubernatorial election comes nearer, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, the National Vice Chairman (Southwest) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has joined the league of apsirants as he declares his intention to contest in the forthcoming election in the state.
While addressing teeming party members at the party’s state secretariat in Ondo, Eddy Olafeso who once served as an information commissioner made the declaration in Alagbaka, Akure.
He said “he made the declaration to run for the state’s governorship to alert and put the leadership and members of the party on notice that he would be taking a shot at the number political office on the platform of the PDP.
Olafeso, however, accused the current administration in the state of dismantling all the legacy projects in the state, particularly free education.
According to him, “You pay fees from primary to secondary and university. The tertiary institutions are far beyond the ordinary man. I am a product of the Obafemi Awolowo era and I wouldn’t have been educated if there were no social welfare programmes for the ordinary man in the street.
“They have abdicated their responsibility. They have stepped on the head of history. There’s no way we will allow them to continue. They have destroyed everything we ever stood for.
“When Agagu left office, we had over N38billion in our kitty as savings. When Dr. Mimiko left office, he left a very vibrant maternal care health programme for the state.
The state Chairman of the PDP, Clement Faboyede, said the party had not zoned the governorship ticket of the party to any zone.
He disclosed that for now, there were17 members of the party that had shown interest in its gubernatorial ticket.
Faboyede boasted that PDP would produce the next governor of the state in the 2020 gubernatorial election.
The former commissioner for community development and cooperative services said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government had disappointed the citizenry.