Wale Jagun
The traditional head of Oke Eletu, Eletu Adeniyi Omotayo Ajayi has assured the residents of Oke – Eletu in Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, to expect developmental projects in their community, while also urging them to be ready to sacrifice for that to happen.
Eletu Adeniyi Ajayi emphasised that residents must be ready to make sacrifice if the flooding problems confronting the community is to be addressed. The traditional leader also urged his people to ensure that they collect their Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC) and be ready to use it to vote in the next and subsequent elections.
He gave the assurance and charge in Oke -Eletu at the weekend.
“Yes, they should be expecting good things from the government, that is one thing that is very paramount. There was a time that I went to meet the representative of Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Honourable Jimi Benson about our roads in Oke – Eletu and he told me that we should go and do the needful.
“While I have met the stakeholders on the need to bring developmental projects, on our own side too, we should be magnanimous enough to sacrifice. Because, let’s be frank with ourselves, the majority of our people who are supposed to have access to the next route they do not because they have built on areas that are supposed to be roads.
“That’s why we are having flooding challenges in Oke- Eletu. So, if we are expecting government to come and do something for us, definitely demolition must occur. Demolition of buildings must occur.
“Therefore, on our part, we should be ready to make sacrifice so that we can witness the development that government is bringing to our community,” he appealed.
Eletu Ajayi, emphasising the importance of collection of the Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC), and enjoining the people of Oke – Eletu to ensure that they pick their PVCs on which basis the community can get government patronage in terms of number of registered voters and votes garnered within the community.
“My message to the Oke- Eletu indigenous and non-indigenous people is to please go out en mass and ensure that they collect their PVCs, the Permanent Voters Card. It is very, very important. We are clamouring for government to come to Ikorodu. We can only do that through our voting power. If those things are not there, we are just making any empty noise.
“We believe that it is through these means that we can negotiate with the government to bring more developmental projects to Ikorodu and Oke – Eletu in particular and we must have enough PVC to prove that.
“I will implore all the indigenous and non-indigenous people to go out en mass to collect their PVCs. Oke – Eletu is fast developing, and I want them to support this development further with their votes.”
He also canvassed support for the local council administration of Hon. Motunrayo Gbadebo – Alogba and that of the representative of Ikorodu Constituency II, Hon. Aro Moshood.
“I also want to plead with my people that they should ensure that our local government chairman, Hon. Motunrayo Gbadebo -Alogba, gets maximum support that she deserves. We should give her administration the maximum support and also our dear representative, Hon. Aro Moshood. We should give them all the necessary support that they deserve because they are the ones that are our spokespersons as far as government is concerned. So, we must collaborate with them by forming a working team with them.
“We should not leave them alone. I want to thank both for the development that we have been seeing in Oke – Eletu. Go to the Methodist Primary School now, you will see that there is an ongoing construction project at the school and the fencing has already been done by Hon, Motunrayo Gbadebo -Alogba.
“I want to say thank you for all they have done, although, we are expecting more projects from them and they should be assured of our support and the fact that we are doing their wishes in Oke – Eletu,” Eletu Ajayi said.
