Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ogun East, Prince Dapo Abiodun, distributed thousands of bags of rice to the party executives in all wards and local councils in all the nine local government areas in the senatorial district.
Prince Abiodun, while addressing the party executives at a meeting at Ijebu North East local council secretariat, Atan on Saturday, December 3, 2015, stated that the essence of his visit was to appreciate the immense support that the people gave him during the party primaries where he had emerged as the party candidate.
The senatorial candidate assured the people to regularly distribute bags of rice on market days to market women in the nine local government that comprise the senatorial district.
He urged the party members to fashion out a way to ensure that the rice be evenlt distributed among the people in each community whenever the rice shall be distributed. He suggested that each unit to local government should nominate a representative to help in the distribution when the time comes.
Prince also hinted that he would also supply of kerosene in litres which would be distributed at all the electoral units and ward, party members would also get kegs of vegetable oil. He said that the gesture is a taste of what to expect as soon as he eventually become the winner of the senatorial representative in the February general elections, adding that they should however guard their Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) as that is their means of guaranteeing that such benefits continue.
Prince, who hinged his philanthropic gesture on the need to help reduce the effect of the economic situation of the country added that by the middle of January, 2015, the first set of beneficiaries of the soft loans he had arranged with a commercial bank for empowerment of women, particularly market women, would have access to the fund.
