I’ll empower people through agriculture in Ondo state if given chance — Oyerinmade
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure
A businessman and entrepreneur, Mathew Oyerinmade, has promised to create a policies that will help diversify the economy of Ondo state with a renewed focus on agriculture, tourism, manufacturing and youth empowerment.
Oyerinmade, who is vying for the Ondo South senatorial seat in the forthcoming general elections under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) said he doesn’t believe in giving people money but to empower them meaningfully through agricultural business such as knitting, poultry farming, petty trading, and running small business.
The APC senatorial aspirant said, “My focus in politics will be to ensure that institutions work and people can benefit from government services irrespective of class or social status. I want to help create policies that will help diversify our economy in Ondo state with a renewed focus on agriculture, tourism, manufacturing and youth empowerment.
“The elderly and seniors will receive help from my Senior Citizen and Elderly Assistance Scheme that specialize in meeting their needs. The intervention scheme is designed to support low income senior citizens and the elderly through Medicare, financial help, home care and grants for paying other bills.
“Most of our graduates are there doing nothing. We need to understand the level of their involvement, what are the areas of their discipline, we need to engage them in order to know what they need not to be giving them motorcycles. There would be massive employment for our youths.
“It is my duty to make quality presentation bills that will torch the lives of our people. I will lobby for the benefit of my people, I will address the issue of non electricity in some part of my senatorial district.
“I shall represent with honesty of purpose, transparency, accountability and in line with the principle of emotional intelligence and the manifestos of our great party.
“I will invest in initiative which provide the youth, as the largest and most impacted population group with skills, tools, access, knowledge and opportunities to become economically active citizens.
“I will be a voice for the voiceless and a defender of the cause of the less privileged through legislative advocacy. I assure you of my commitment to ensuring that constituency projects and intervention programmes nominated across my senatorial district are fully executed and delivered according to specifications and within the specified period.”
He, therefore, promised to intensify efforts towards ensuring that youths and women of his senatorial district (Ondo South), are engage meaningfully, constructively and passionately subscribed to the national development plan if given the opportunity to serve the good people of his constituency.
