A member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Jamiu Ekungba, said yesterday that it was a national embarrassment and a shame that many oil producing states in the country cannot pay salaries due to mismanagement of government resources.
The APC BoT member who was at the APC secretariat to submit his nomination form to contest the party’s Ondo State governorship primary said an APC government under his watch would explore available resources to ensure that Ondo took its pride of place in the scheme of things in the country.
He said that the state and, indeed, the country found itself in the present situation because of bad leadership. “The State is owing six months salaries. An oil producing state owing salaries; can you imagine? That is because we don’t have the right leadership.”
As governor, he said, he would reposition Ondo State and nurture the state back to life. “I have restructured death companies back to life. So, I have what it takes, and I will restructure Ondo State back to life.”
He promised to train about 60, 000 youths within his tenure of office and empower them to be self-reliant. On his programme on education, he said: “I am not going to build an educational system that looks at just speaking of English alone, I going to look at educational system that would look at education in totality, that is, the development of the mind: mentally, academically, morally, physically and spiritually.”