The Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun East Senatorial District, Chief Francis Fadahunsi, has said that Governor Rauf Aregbesola cannot stop him from winning the February 14 senatorial election.
Fadahunsi, a retired Deputy Comptroller General of Customs and Chairman of the Cocoa Research Institute, Ibadan, disclosed this at a press briefing in Oshogbo to kick-start his campaign in Osogbo on Monday. He is from the same senatorial district with the Osun state governor.
Fadahunsi said: “Incumbency is not a threat to me. Governor Rauf Aregbesola is my younger brother and he cannot stop me. What we are selling is personality; I don’t think he has the kind of influence I have in Ijesaland and in the whole of the senatorial district.
“I have developed people and by the grace of God, these are the people who will vote, so I am not bothered by his position as the governor. You will see what will happen in Ilesa, you will see the result in Obokun and other areas and even in Ife. The result will be a landslide victory in our favour.”
On his legislative agenda, Fadahunsi said he would influence a bill which will ensure that Agriculture development was made compulsory to ensure food security and create jobs for the youths.
According to him, Agriculture should have been developed from a fraction of money realized from crude oil sale in the past, saying if this had been done, the impact of the steady fall of oil price would not have been badly felt by states.
The PDP candidate said that cocoa, kola nuts, cashew and palm tree could be turned into another goldmine if properly developed.
He debunked insinuations that the PDP governorship candidate in the August governorship election in the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore was against his candidature. He said Omisore decided to be neutral because he is a respectable party leader.
According to him, the governorship candidate has held three reconciliatory meetings to unite aggrieved members of the party especially from the Osun East Senatorial District.
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