Osun 2014: LP ’ll halt capital flight to Lagos — Nwayanwu •... As Akinbade receives party’s flag

WITH less than a month to the Osun 2014 governorship election, the national chairman of Labour Party (LP), Mr Dan Nwayanwu, on Saturday in Osogbo, said his party would immediately halt alleged capital flight to Lagos and reinvigorate the economy of the state to banish poverty. Nwayanwu, who officially presented the flag of the LP to the party’s standard bearer in the August 9 poll, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, said “LP is the only progressive political party in Nigeria”, stressing that “our governor, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, would not pay returns to any political godfather anywhere”. According to him, “in Labour Party, we don’t deceive the people nor peddle lies. After August 9, when you must have voted for our party, there would immediate stoppage to capital flight in Osun, which is retarding the economic growth of this state”. Mimiko was able to do all he did in Ondo State because the money accruable to Ondo is revolving within the economy of the state”. Nwayanwu contended that “we want to elect a government in Osun that will not pay returns to anybody; a government that would utilise the funds of the state for the people.” Commenting on Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s educational policy, the LP national chairman promised that seeming high tuition fees being paid by students in the state owned tertiary institutions, which he noted had been on strike over 5 months ago would be drastically reduced to consider the plights of indigent students. On the recent collapse of a structure in one of the mega schools, constructed by the state government, in Ejigbo, Nwayanwu asserted that “I learnt that a mega school collapsed few days ago. It is because they give contracts anyhow, without due process, to settle people. Then, the mega school collapsed. Come to Ondo State and see our mega schools. The difference is clear”. Efforts made to get the reaction of Governor Aregbesola’s Director of Bureau of Communications and Strategy, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, for reaction were not successful as repeated calls made to his cellphone were not answered while text messages forwarded to him was neither replied at this time of filing this report.