The federal lawmaker representing Akoko North/West of Ondo State at the National Assembly, Honourable Ifeoluwa Ehindero, has promised a better days of greater representation and constituency intervention for his people in 2025.
Ehindero made this known at a media parley with members of the Association of Ondo Media Practitioners (AOMP), as part of the activities to mark his first year in the National Assembly.
Speaking on a scale of one to ten, and what his people and Nigerians should expect in the next year, the Akoko-born politician said the Akoko North/West Federal Constituency will have a very good year in 2025.
“We are looking at a lot of empowerment, we have an army of youth that are unemployed that are skilled; we are looking up to helping the skilled one to get funding for businesses, and the unskilled to also get skilled.
“So skilled acquisition is one of our key priorities for 2025; this includes employment opportunities.
“Basically, we are looking at road constructions when it comes to infrastructure, upgrading the medical facility as well as comprehensive medical outreach.
“We are looking at water projects as one of the grey areas for our 2025 intervention. “Security is also one of those areas we are looking at. We have identified some flash points where we need security intervention. Already, we have facilitated two patrol vans as I speak that are moving around the flash areas.
“We provide funds for them for fuelling and upkeep. There are about twelve officers that are already working there, which have actually reduced crime in our constituency.” Ehindero added.
Ehindero also reminisced on his legislative agenda for the year 2025, and his relationship with other lawmakers at the Federal House of Representatives towards the development of his legislative agendas, he spoke thus:
“Our constituency is going to have a wonderful year; one also has to appreciate the President.
“In the 2025 budget, President Tinubu made it clear, that he wants zonal intervention projects to be more, and in capital projects that will cut across the 360 federal constituencies we have in Nigeria, so we have seen a lot of road construction at the grassroots level, lots of classroom constructions among other capital projects, so the president has made it easy for lawmakers. The Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Correctional Institutions, who has just been appointed Chairman of the Committee on Student Loans, Scholarships, Higher Education Financing and NELFUND, also speaks on sundry issues, including decongestion of about 100 correctional facilities within the one year of his presence as a member of the Committee.
“There were the Committee interventions, and likewise individuals, but I’m sure of four at individual level, and we also achieved this feat when we go as a team of ten members of the Committee.
“There was a Director from the Ministry of Justice that works with the DG of the Nigerian Correctional Service at the time; we had to engage them in taking some actions, which helped to decongest over a hundred across Nigeria.
“Concerning our relationship with colleagues at NASS, yes, we do, basically at the Committee level.
“Your constituency might need something that you don’t have the privilege of being on the committee, but you are a friend to someone who chairs a committee or other strategic positions. “The synergy is crucial, and that is the only way you can make a meaningful impact outside your own territory.” the lawmaker opined.
Ehindero, who was recently honoured with appointment as the Grand-patron of the Association of Ondo Media Practitioners (AOMP), tell the visiting press the synergy among lawmakers representing Ondo State, says the people of the state will soon breathe a sigh of relief over the dilapidated state of the federal roads across the state, given efforts of the legislatures from the state.
“We have a caucus. We actually hold meetings, and during the budget period, we still engage ourselves on how to assist our state in facilitating jobs among others; even from the senatorial district, we have all of that.
“It will also interest you to know that we have been able to facilitate road construction through the Committee on Works; you will begin to see lots of road construction across Ondo State based on our intervention.” Ehindero said.
It would be recalled that the Ifeoluwa Ehindero, had replaced the current Minister of Interior, Hon Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, in the National Assembly, following the ministerial appointment of the latter by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 2023, creating a representation vacuum for the Akoko North/West federal constituency, hence the emergence of Ehindero in a landslide election victory of January 2024.
The bye-election was held by the Independent National Electoral Commission on 3 February 2024, which he won with 35,504 votes, defeating his closest rival, Olalekan Bada from the Peoples Democratic Party, who had 15,328 votes.
