A Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant Segun Showunmi has vowed to probe and jail any individual found guilty of stealing Ogun State resources, if made governor of the State in the 2023 elections.
He stated this at his Abeokuta, residence during Iftar (breaking of Ramadan fast) with journalists in the state stating confidently that he would defeat his co-aspirant, Oladipupo Adebutu like a baby as he is poised to winning the PDP governorship primaries.
Showunmi who claimed to have remained in PDP since 1999, said no aspirant can “claim to be more PDP than him, adding that he is searching for a deputy that is more than a spare tyre.”
He said his intention is to run the state like a country if he’s elected governor next year.
The governorship aspirant promised to run a government with “complete paradigm shift from the status quo,” by making Ogun “absolutely self sufficient.”
He accused the present state government of paying lip services to security, health, education and development issues in the state.
The PDP aspirant noted that lack of effective social welfare programmes and policies have turned children of the poor to beggars in the state.
Showunmi said “I intend to run Ogun State as if it is a country.
“I am looking to create an Ogun that will be absolutely self sufficient.
“One of the first things that we are going to do if I win and may God let me win, is to create an Ogun Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, where bright minds of Ogun will seat down every blessed day, crafting solutions to problems of now and even problems of the future.”
The aspirant also promised what he called “indigenisation of Ogun Government contracts” by allowing indigenes to be part of projects to be executed by any contractor.
He vowed to ensure those who have stolen the state’s resources are jailed, even as he said he should be jailed if found to have stolen from the state.
According to him “I’m chasing immortality by the policies and programmes that we will run here. And if one day you find me a thief, jail me, because I will jail those who have stolen before me.
“Let nobody be deceived, I’m not asking to “I am looking to create an Ogun that will be absolutely self sufficient.i did not say I would lead Ogun so that we can pamper ourselves, no!.
“Government business is a sacred trust which you hold on behalf of all the collectives.
“This is Ogun. The vast majority of people living here are bona-fide citizens of this place whose parents are the owners of this land. You can not be in charge of our land, asset, taxes and goodwill, and all you will do is to steal and they will not probe you? You must be joking. Showunmi said”
