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| L-R: APC deputy national organizing secretary; Chidi Nze-Duru receiving the nomination forms from Senator Jimoh Ibrahim |
'Seun Ibukun-Oni, Abuja
DAILY COURIER - As the race for Alagbaka house hots up in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), business mogul, Senator Jimoh Ibrahim has promised to nip insecurity in the bud using hi-tech.
Ibrahim said this while submitting his expression of interest and nomination forms at the national party secretariat April 4, 2024.
Reacting to the increasing level of insecurity across the country, he submitted that the Amotekun Corp will be modernize to fight emerging security challenges bedeviling the state.
"On security, I will modernize Amotekun, I will use app to dislodge insecurity. There are apps that can detect insecurity and crimes, these are what I will employ.
"Modern security require this artificial intelligence to combat insecurity.
"Today security is about having the right app to manage the situation, when I become the governor I will use the military jets to fly drones around to restore security" Ibrahim said.
The business mogul equally maintained that the bitumen deposit in the state will be put to the best use if elected. He noted that the requisite legislation would be fast tracked to make it the mainstay of Ondo state.
"My focus when I become governor, is to ensure that one, the Bitumen, $47 billion seated in Agbabu is extracted.
"I brought the current Bitumen bill before the the national assembly and we are now on the third reading of that bill so that we can have a law backing Bitumen.
"So why Bitumen arrangements have been failing is because we don't have law guiding that."
Ibrahim dismissed the insinuation making the rounds about President Tinubu endorsing a candidate going into the primary election.
"It is stupid to say you are looking for endorsement, politics is about democracy and democracy is about number.
"Somebody seating down and want to endorse you, that's not realistic.
"Was Asiwaju endorsed, at the end of the day, he won the election with no endorsement from anybody, you believe is your turn is your turn.
"As am leaving here by Monday, I am paying 140 million naira to the party for 100,000 delegates membership form" he added.
