Agunloye raises hope on Bitumen exploitation, receives hundreds LP, PDP defectors

A leading governorship aspirant on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and two times Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Olu Agunloye said he was keen at facilitating exploitation of Bitumen in Ondo State if given opportunity to serve the people of the state as governor.

Agunloye made this known last Thursday while addressing 207 decamping rallies organized by his Omoluabi Platform in Ore, Odigbo Local government area of the state where he received into ACN about 1, 000 Labour Party (LP) and people’s Democratic Party (PDP) members who decamped under 20 deferent groups.

“Governance is about creating wealth and environment for empowerment and emancipation. One of the things that make it possible for any government to implement is availability of natural resources like Bitumen. We are going to exploit this true Public Private Partnership (PPP).

“We will go into proper wealth creation in the next regime not only in farm settlement but in creating industries so that the teaming unemployed youth can be properly engaged. What has been happening to successive governments in Ondo State is the absent of Omoluabi virtues.

“That is why you find acclaimed cement factory in Okeluse taking money without being on ground, building water fountain on the road without potable water for people, spending billions of naira on Dome project without anything to show for it and that is why you find Bitumen in Agbabu without exploitation,” Agunloye said.

While receiving the groups, the Local Government Chairman of Odigbo Local Government chapter of the ACN, Mr Rafiu Gbadeyan, said the party was not going to discriminate against any member and that the party at the council level would operate opened administration that is capable of properly integrating every member.

Leaders of the groups who promised to work for the party in the forthcoming election hinged their defection on the fact that they wanted to go along with the progressives in the South-West and that they joined because of the concept of Omoluabi being propagated by Dr. Agunloye and which they have found worthy to follow.