ILA– AHEAD of the Saturday September 22nd Governorship election in osun , the governorship candidate of the Restoration Party of Nigeria RP, Hon Mrs Mercy Ayodele on Monday affirmed that she remains the best guber candidate for osun, as the state is well assured under her watch as the Governor.
Ayodele made this declaration while paying homage to the Orangun of Ila, Oba Abdulwahaab oyedotun on Monday as part of her campaign.
Mercy Ayodele maintain that her administration is based on five - cardinal programme. "The first one is Youth Empowerment Programme for small scale enterprises because as we will all agree , any economy that is not based on small scale enterprises cannot survive . We have met with different groups and traders . We are giving them our words that we are going to give them soft loans, without interest and we are also looking at how they can start their own contributory pension scheme. My mother is also an artisan and I know how much it means to have something to fall back on at retirement . Workers welfare is also part of the plan. We will ensure payment of workers’ salaries as and when due. We are looking at how we are going to sit down and renegotiate the backlog with a view to ascertaining how we can pay it without affecting our governance . Also, on education, we are going to work on the existing structure and make sure that we develop our teachers by making them work more because from the research I made , Osun is on the 29 th position in the WASSCE ranking , leaving us well below five northern states and that ’ s a very bad signal . This is not about policy ; it is about the stakeholders , which comprise the teachers . Are they well paid and motivated ? We believe if they are given salaries as and when due, they will perform better .
We are also going to work on rural development through agriculture and I want to tell you that Osun State can feed the whole of the South - West . We want to give loans to the real farmers, not those who are sitting down in their office acting as farmers. I went to a rural area recently and I was sad with the deplorable state I met their roads . It is not passable at all and there is the need for us to look into this so that there would be a network between them and the urban areas .
We will ensure a perfect health system in form of insurance. Most of our hospitals are not well equipped and we are looking at how we would partner local drug manufacturers so that they will , in turn , employ more people to work for them too. Most of our doctors have fled the state as a result of the modulated salary; we want to bring them back and give them what is due" she said
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