“Education shall be free, qualitative and compulsory”–
Ebiseni,Labour Party Candidate.
Several parts of Akure the Ondo capital was agog yesterday as Labour Party kicked off its state-wide campaigns for the November 16th Ondo State governorship election.
Led by its governorship candidate Chief Sola Ebiseni and the running mate, Dayo Awude, the campaign convoy of youths, women and known personalities in the town were decked in the orange colour stopped at markets, motor parks, okada parks and other places of large concentration of people, reminding them of programmes and projects said to have positively impacted the people.
Ebiseni listed such programmes and projects as including free education which comprised mega schools, payment of WAEC fees for final year students and provision of free buses for movement of students to and from schools throughout the state, free health services including free delivery of women in the Mother and Child hospitals during the Labour Party government of Dr Olusegun Mimiko in which Ebiseni and his Deputy were both Commissioners.
At Oda Town, a suburb of Akure, a young mother busted into the crowd and spoke about how she was saved from maternal death by free delivery at the Mother and Child hospital. It was the same testimony at Isinkan market where the women hailed the Labour Party government for building the market with modern facilities. Another woman who was with a boy said she gave birth to her two children free of charge at the Mother and Child hospital during the Labour Party government.
At the Motor spare parts market at Ilesha garage, Ebiseni promised to rebuild the market. Speaking in Igbo language, one of the officials of Party reminded the people of the solidarity with Igbo Presidency by the Afenifere Yoruba Socio-political Organisation of which Ebiseni is the Secretary General.
Speaking on the general direction of the Labour Party government, Ebiseni promised to prioritise security by ensuring safe returns of farmers to their farms, he said the state had comparative advantage in the abundance of coastal and forest resources including minerals dotting the state’s land scale. On education Ebiseni said his administration will ensure free, qualitative and compulsory education till the end of secondary school such that “ from day one of our administration no child of school age will be out of school while tertiary education will be greatly subsidised”.