Senator Ajayi Boroffice
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state has condemned a statement credited to the senator representing Ondo North Senatorial District of state in the National Assembly, Prof Robert Ajayi Boroffice.
Boroffice had faulted Governor Olusegun Mimiko for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policies and described Mimiko as an accidental critic.
Boroffice who also alleged that the the Ondo State government lacked any serious policies, said the governor has succeeded in doing nothing for the people of the state for the past six years of the administration.
But in a statement issued yesterday in Akure, the state capital, by its Publicity Secretary, Hon. Banji Okunomo, the PDP described the statement as “illogical and unreasonable”.
Okunomo said it is on record that the present administration led by Governor Mimiko has embarked on a number of transformational programmes in the state in the past years.
According to him, these programmes have cut across every part of the state and every aspect of the economy including education, agriculture, health, urban renewal and community development.
He maintained that the numerous policies of the government in the education and health sector have turned the state to a benchmark in the comity of states in the country.
Okunomo went on to ask; “How then can a distinguished Senator describe the Caring Heart Programme of the State government as Ruining Heart?,If a state government provides cheap and affordable education for its citizens, do we call that ruining heart?.
“Moreover, the fact that the senator was lucky to have been elected for a second term to the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not confer any measure of popularity on him.He won the March 28 election because of the change mantra that infested public domain shortly before the election.
“And one can be sure that people voted for APC without even being able to distinguish between the ballot box for the presidential or the national Assembly election.Senator Boroffice should not forget that he rode on the popularity of Governor Mimiko-led Labour Party to the Senate in the first place before he crossed carpet .
“But for Mimiko, maybe he would not be in the Senate now. So how come he is talking about some popularity? Who is fooling who?.Peradventure Boroffice is making such assumption because of his total disconnect from the people. Nobody knows Boroffice. He has not done anything to touch the lives of the people of the state.
“And even for the past almost five years that he has been in the Senate, he has not sponsored a single bill that would be of benefit to the entire nation or the people of Ondo State.It should be stated unequivocally that Ondo State is a no go area for the APC in the forthcoming 2016 gubernatorial election.
“The people of the state are wiser and would not be deceived again with some nebulous propaganda because so far, Buhari has not impressed the people as regards providing good governance and the people are sick of it.If he continues to fight corruption, when is he going to settle down to attend to issues that would help improve the economy of the state?
“The people of Ondo state can no longer be fooled and Senator Boroffice should not think he could win the governorship election in which he intends to contest with some nebulous propaganda,” Okunomo stated.
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