The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairmanship candidate for Ifelodun local government, Hon. Abdulrasheed Femi Yusuf has bemoaned the culpability of few bad eggs within the various communities in Ifelodun Local Government Area, who are in criminal cohort with outsiders to torment the local government, stressing that with him as the Council Chairman, he’ll ensure all the bad eggs are flushed out.
In a statement signed by the Director of Media and publicity, Abdulrasheed Akogun, Hon. Yusuf popularly known as Kotokoto made this pledge during his campaign tour of Ora, Agunjin, Igbaja ward 2 and Igbaja ward 3, emphasizing that all forms of criminalities will be flushed out from the local government.
He said “One of the major challenges, presently bedeviling our local government is the issue of insecurity, which has not only given our local government a bad name, it is completely alien to us. It has demarketed us and making commercial activities which is the backbone of our economy, comatose.
“We can’t shy away from the fact that nobody can shave our head behind us, it is not possible for this level of kidnapping and organised criminality to take root in our towns and villages without local enablers who are indigenes of the various communities.
“We’ll work hand in hand with all relevant stakeholders to rid our communities of criminalities, by fishing out all criminal saboteurs within our midst.
“I enjoin all community stakeholders to refuse to pamper or cover any bad eggs within us, we should push them all out to face the full wrath of the law, as their criminal conduct is not only against our tradition and culture, it is against the interest, development and aspirations of our people.
“From my first day in office, I’ll constitute an high-powered action team, that’ll address the insecurity issues frontally. We’ll be needing you to vote for us and also work with us throughout our stay in office” he promised.
The Chairman of the campaign council who doubles as the Member, representing Omupo Constituency at the State House of Assembly, Hon. AGF Salaudeen, emphasised the importance of a personality like Hon. Femi Yusuf to occupy the seat of the council Chairman at this particular time, stressing that his network and goodwill will come handy in assisting the LG to surmount the prevailing challenges.
He said “God has answered the prayers of Ifelodun, that’s why we have someone of Femi Yusuf’s calibre as the next Chairman of the LG.
“While we all can be rest assured that he’ll do everything within the purview of the local government council to ameliorate the challenges and spread dividends of Democracy across. He’ll also use his personality and contact to open doors of opportunities at the State and private levels. So with him at the helms, Ifelodun is in safe hands, as we’ll eat our cake and have it” he added.
Hon. Fatai Labaka a former Chairman of the local government who is the Director General of the Campaign Organisation advised Igbaja ward 2 to stick with the age long zoning arrangements, stressing that it is the turn of Igbaja ward 1 to produce the Chairman.
Assuring the APC of overwhelming victory, Hon. Saheed Idowu Olomoh, 2023 House of Assembly Candidate of the Social Democratic Party for Omupo Constituency, said “As we all know, Agunjin ward is one of the most orderly and coordinated, we have utmost respect for preexisting zoning arrangements, our councillor and Chairman will win with a landslide” he added.
Other members of the campaign train includes; Ajiroba of Babanloma, Alh. Ibrahim Lawal, Hon. Babalola Idowu Arola, Chief Ademola Zubair, Dr. Kamil Akorede, Engr. Musbau Ogundipe, Hon. Taiwo Babatunde and Alh. Barakat Atunse among others.