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Holds meeting with Abeokuta South LG stakeholders
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From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
Senator Solomon Adeola, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Ogun State, on Wednesday promised to faithfully implement his 9-Pillar ITESIWAJU Agenda if elected governor in February 2027, as he gave an account of his stewardship to stakeholders in Abeokuta South Local Government Area.
Adeola spoke at the Abeokuta South edition of his Stakeholders Town Hall Meeting held at the H3 Event Centre, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, where he said the forum was meant to get feedback on his representation and to assess the needs of the people for implementable solutions to the development challenges of the state.
He said a solid foundation had been laid for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda in the last three and a half years, and that the first fruits of the reforms were beginning to show, adding that he was fully involved in laying that foundation as a legislator.
He credited the President’s courageous reforms in fuel subsidy removal and exchange rate unification with yielding positive dividends, citing a fall in inflation from about 34.8 per cent in 2024 to about 14.6 per cent in September 2026, a cut in the debt-service-to-revenue ratio from 97 per cent to below 50 per cent, and a rise in external reserves to about $58.8 billion in October 2026, the highest in 18 years.
Adeola also listed the introduction of the National Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), which he said had benefited over 1.5 million students to the tune of N300 billion, the end of periodic strikes that disrupted academic sessions, the clearing of a $7 billion forex backlog, the payment of a N750 billion pension backlog outstanding for 17 years, the creation of four new divisions of the Nigerian Army and the recruitment of 139,000 forest guards to tackle insecurity.
He said the administration had also disbursed N250,000 directly to NIN- and BVN-verified households, covering over eight million households and totalling about N330 billion, with a target of 15 million households, while creating six development commissions for the six geo-political zones and advancing state police, with over 30 states acceding to the constitutional amendment.
Coming to Ogun State, Adeola commended Governor Dapo Abiodun for what he described as tremendous performance under the I.S.E.Y.A programme in the last seven and a half years of the APC administration, including the completion of over 1,700 kilometres of roads across the state, more than any previous administration, and 3,640 housing units across the three senatorial districts.
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He specifically praised the governor for laying a critical foundation for future economic growth through the Gateway International Cargo Airport at Iperu, the signing of a $7 billion MoU for the Gateway Deep Sea Port at Ogun Waterside, and inland dry ports at Ijebu-Ode and Abeokuta.
In the area of project facilitation, Adeola said he had facilitated and completed over 900 infrastructure projects across Ogun State, covering roads, school buildings, ICT centres, healthcare facilities, markets, police stations, town halls, solar lights and transformers.
For Abeokuta South LGA specifically, Adeola listed 23 major projects, including 11 road constructions, four blocks of 12 classrooms, one ICT centre, two modern libraries, one skills acquisition centre, a new hospital building at Ijaiye Hospital, one ultra-modern market, one police station with a three-bedroom bungalow, two solar mini-grids, and 35 all-in-one solar street lights projects and transformers.
He said Abeokuta South was also a major beneficiary of his scholarship and bursary scheme, training and empowerment for women and youths, as well as financial grants to market women and men. He explained that the Scholarship and Bursary Board he established, comprising eminent academics and intellectuals, had so far benefited about 10,000 indigent but brilliant students across Ogun State, with awards ranging from N100,000 for bursary to N200,000 for scholarship, including students from Abeokuta South.
He, however, acknowledged challenges facing some parts of the LGA, particularly in roads and other infrastructure, and assured residents that he would begin to address those challenges in the next two weeks, noting that the projects already delivered were proof that he would continue to be there for them.
While urging the residents of Abeokuta South LGA to vote massively for all the APC candidates in the 2027 general election, Adeola assured them that he would run an administration that would be for everyone, if elected the next governor of the state.
In their respective remarks earlier, stakeholders, including the Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Agency (OGWAMA), Farooq Akintunde, representatives of the Council of Baales and Abeokuta South Zonal Community Development Committees (CDCs), as well as other APC chieftains, commended Adeola for facilitating massive infrastructure projects in the local government, promising to mobilise support for the victory of the party’s candidates next year.
