Oyo APC Reps candidate, Oseni promises to hold quarterly town hall meetings

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Ibarapa East/Ido Federal Constituency in the 2023 elections, Engr Aderemi Oseni has promised constituents at every stop, among other assurances, to hold a quarterly rendering of account of stewardship.

He said the quarterly rendering of account, which will take the form of town hall meetings, would afford him the opportunity to feel the pulse of the people and get firsthand knowledge of their needs and concerns, saying, “this would enable me to get the best of feedback through deliberations that accompany such meetings”.

Oseni, who stated this recently at a meeting with the non-indigenes in Ido local government area of Oyo state, held at the St. Andrews primary school  playing ground, Omi-Adio, also reiterated his commitment to an open door policy to encourage open communication, feedback, and discussion about any matter of importance.

“As part of my efforts toward bringing governance to the people, promoting transparency and accountability, it has become imperative for me to quarterly ren­der account of stewardship as well as in­ter­act with my constituents on di­verse is­sues of gov­er­nance. The town hall meet­ing will assist my re­solve to run an all-inclusive government in which no one or segment of the so­ci­ety would be left behind”, he said.

The renowned Ibadan-born businessman and clergy, in a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of his campaign council, Idowu Ayodele, on Wednesday further explained that the interactive session would be used to evaluate, highlight and discuss his activities and successes recorded, stressing that it would also provide a steady plat­form for the constituents as well as other stake­hold­ers to be part of de­ci­sion mak­ing process in the constituency.

The statement continued, “this, of course, is the haecceity of democ­racy. For any demo­cratic sys­tem to be true about the peo­ple, it is critical that ev­ery demo­crat­i­cally elected lawmaker con­stantly re­lates with the cit­i­zens on key is­sues of gov­er­nance”.

According to the APC chieftain, the peo­ple re­main the bedrock of democ­racy and as such it is crit­i­cal that their views on gov­ern­ment poli­cies and pro­grammes are care­fully and sys­tem­at­i­cally sought from time to time.

Oseni added that opin­ions of var­i­ous stake­hold­ers as well as res­o­lu­tions would be help­ful in as­sist­ing him to pri­ori­tise de­vel­op­men­tal plans across var­i­ous sec­tors of the constituency.

“This is quite im­por­tant be­cause where ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion is lack­ing, the cit­i­zenry is bound to take ru­mours, false­hoods, half-truths and mis­con­cep­tions as the gospel truth, es­pe­cially in this era of un­bri­dled so­cial me­dia phe­nom­e­non”, he said.

Earlier in their separate remarks, the different ethnic groups comprising Hausa, Igbo, Fulani, Igede, Ebira, and Tiv among others, said they were convinced beyond doubt that Oseni is unequalled and will be the next best thing that will happen to the constituency.

They unanimously vowed to mobilise votes and work for his victory in the forthcoming elections billed for February 25.