Dr Jimoh Ibrahim, CFR, billionaire business mogul, has said that the residents of Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area (LGA) of the stare deserved better treatment as the industrial hub and commercial nerve centre of the council area and state at large
Ibrahim, All Progressives Congress (APC) standard bearer for Ondo South Senatorial District in the Feb. 25 general polls spoke during Ifesowapo Amuludun Elders and Youth Forum annual anniversary in Ore.
The association which was made up of non indigenes of diverse tribes in Nigeria on Saturday , gathered guests and well wishers for their annual youth anniversary, confirment of awards as well the swearing -in of the new executives of its female arm (Ifesowapo Women Forum).
Ibrahim, Chairman of Global Fleet Oil and Gas Group who is also the Chairman of the occassion congratulated members of the association for putting up such a high class anniversary, noting that for them to sustain anniversary takes a strong sense of cohesion among them.
Ibrahim, advised members of the association not to see themselves as strangers in their land of residence, stressing that no community grows without the collective input of non-indigenes yet contributed massively to the economic advancement of the community.
He said Ore community was heavily populated by non indigenes yet their economic collaboration and input has continued to form a huge bulk of the areas of economic mainstay.
“Let me state categorically that the people of Odigbo LGA deserve better treatment because Ore which the headquarters of Odigbo LGA was the major industrial hub of Ondo South, even the state.
“Ore plays significant economic role as the linking route between the West and the East en route the Lagos axis and there is no doubt about the fact that the success story of Ore town as a commercial city will be impossible without the commendable input of the residents, whose majority are the non indigenes.
“In Odigbo LGA, the ward 10 at Ore alone has about 38,000 voters and that is a lump some by the analysis of data analytics. You will agree with me that ward 10 alone has a significant voting strength than other wards. Therefore, these voters are our own people, no matter what tribe or what community outside Odigbo that they have come from.
“For such huge population of residents , they deserve better treatment at all times,” Ibrahim added.
In his usual display of natural philanthropy, Dr Ibrahim supported the association with a mouth watering donation even as he promised them another tranche of a huge donation immediately after the Feb. 25 elections, when he would had emerged as the Senator elect of Ondo South.
Earlier, the chairman of the association, Coach Abimbola Oladimeji appreciated the Ibrahim, the Araba of Ikaleland and his campaign team for honouring their invitation.
Abimbola said Ibrahim is a figure in Nigeria with high esteem, charging him to extend his kind gesture to Ore by citing the annex of his university, The University of Fortune in Ore.
He claimed doing such would provide jobs for the people of Ore, particularly the youths which woukd equally make Ore have an educational facility, which invariably would instill the youths interest in education.
Also, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the state deputy governor, in his remarks congratulated the association for hosting a befitting anniversary.
He also appealed to the good people of Odigbo to continue to give APC massive votes as they have always done in previous elections, saying Odigbo was an area the progressives the state has always banked on for good vote harvests.
Highlight of the event was presentation of awards of honour to executive members of the association.
Among the dignitaries at the event were APC stalwart, Chief Olusola Oke, Dr Segun Ayodele, DG, Jimoh Ibrahim Campaign Council among others.