I know how to turn around the economy of Ondo State. …I want to run a government that can employ about 5,000 people in one local government area. Before Achievers University got to Idasen, a plot of land was sold there for N10,000.00. Within three years of establishing that university, land move up from N10,000.00 to N250,000.00. Presently, you cannot get a plot of land for less than N500,000.00. That is what industrialization does to an environment. If I get the ticket of PDP, I will win the election and everybody will know we have won the election. By the time I speak to the people, youths and students and show them my plan to establish six industrial estates, two in each of the senatorial districts, I will win the election. If you get to Oluyole Industrial estate in Ibadan, Oyo State, about 20 factories are working there. In the morning, you see sea of legs and vehicles moving towards that side. A situation where graduates ride commercial motorcycles is not acceptable. …I am sensitive to the yearnings of Ondo Central and South that it is their turn to produce the governor, but I beg them to allow the North to complete its tenure. Once I pick the ticket, I will sign an undertaken that I will only spend only one term in office. On the day of inauguration, I will tell them that whoever wants to be governor from Central or South should start campaigning. I shall pass through this place, not more than once and in four years, I will establish industrial base of Ondo State for the Nigerian nation to copy.”*
– Hon. ‘Bode Ayorinde, PhD. (Ondo PDP governorship aspirant)
_Culled from New Telegraph newspaper publication on May 7, 2020._
