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The House of Representatives Deputy Minority Whip, AbdulMajid Adekoya, has warned Nigerians against religious and ethnic biases in electing the country’s next President.
Adekoya, who is representing Ijebu-North/Ijebu-East/Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency, spoke at the ceremony of N500 million fund raising for Community Development Projects, organised by the Ago-Iwoye Great Thinkers Trust Foundation in Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The fund raising ceremony was a convergence of indigenes of Ago-Iwoye both at home and in diaspora to raise funds for the developmental projects in the city in the area of health, agriculture, education and youth empowerment.
According to Adekoya, religious and ethnic sentiments fuelled the economic and security mishap that the nation is currently facing.
He urged Nigerian electorate to make it a matter of priority in electing competence in the 2023 general election.
His words, “In the coming elections, people should not look for the All Progressives Congress, not Muslim or Christian or whatever. The level we are now and the extent the APC has taken Nigeria, people should look for someone who can fix the economy.
“People should not consider religious or ethnicity in the coming election. We, the Yoruba people, don’t care about your religion or what you believe in. My wife is a council chairman in APC state. I am the only PDP in Ogun State and I am not persuaded to join the APC.
“Our challenge is economy, the economy has been bastardised, so, what people should look out for before voting a candidate, is first, the economy, followed by security. Government should do the needful.
The governor of the state, Dapo Abiodun, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Tokunbo Talabi, lauded the initiative, stating that the Ago-Iwoye indigenes had alluded to the fact that government alone could not bring about development in the state.
Abiodun then assured the indigenes of his administration’s support by bringing more developmental projects to Ago-Iwoye communities.
He said, “Ago Iwoye people have taken a giant step to take their destiny in their hands. You don’t leave everything to government and I believe that this initiative will be something that other neighborhoods will look into.
“When you have project like this, it doesn’t rob you of the fact that you are entitled to certain projects and when you are talking about development, development can come from both the government, the indigenes and even from outsiders.
“We are going to sit down and digest all our programmes. We have in health, education and we have in agriculture and these are the three cardinal points for any administration to grow.”
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