A Canada-based Nigerian doctor, Dr Abiola Oshodi says his aspiration for the Owo/Ose Federal Constituency seat is to ensure that children of the poor have access to quality education.
Oshodi, an aspirant for the Owo/Ose Federal Constituency on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), stated this on Sunday while addressing his supporters in Owo, Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The aspirant, who obtained his Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms on Friday at the APC headquarters in Abuja, explained that his political ambition was to make positive impact in the constituency.
“My desire is to help in turning the constituency to an egalitarian one where life shall be made more abundant for the constituents.
“Where no child of school age is deprived of education just because his or her parents could not afford school fees, and where every constituent shall be proud of his or her representative.
“I am contesting for the good of all the downtrodden, the youths, the aged, farmers and the teeming youths.
“This, I intend to achieve through bills to be sponsored either as an individual or in partnership with my colleagues if elected,” he said.
According to the aspirant, his foundation, Abiola Oshodi Foundation, has empowered many indigent students in the areas of scholarships and bursary, especially from the constituency.
“I have, also through the foundation, discovered football talents who will, in no distant time, begin to earn foreign exchange to the country.
“My programmes are available to every student resident in communities in the constituency,” the aspirant said.
Oshodi, a psychiatrist, assured that the programmes would continue in a larger scope if elected as a legislator.
Oshodi, however, advised the party delegates “to put in their hands on good and right person for desired light.”
He appealed to the leadership of the party in the state “to allow the people’s will to prevail as imposition may tear the party apart”.