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My ambition, Kwarans, and the beautiful scripture of historical template—A Covenant of Service
Ibrahim Elelu Ayoola — APC" Governorship Aspirant, Kwara State
My ambition, Kwarans, and the beautiful scripture of historical template that has carried our people through seasons of struggle and renewal, compel me to offer myself for service as governor of Kwara State. I believe Kwara is not a stool to be rotated but a state to be governed; therefore I present a covenant of competence, care, and courage—measured by what improves your daily life.
We will secure our communities by mapping risks ward by ward and running a live security dashboard for the state; training, equipping, insuring, and legally backing community vigilantes who work in sync with the police, NSCDC, and the military; establishing a Rapid Response Fund to keep patrols mobile and communication clear; lighting vulnerable corridors with solar streetlights, repairing access roads, and clearing known escape routes; and setting up a Victims Support Desk for medical care, trauma counselling, displacement support and recovery micro-grants, alongside a functional distress line and monthly public briefings with traditional rulers, women, and youth leaders.
Our administration will create dignified work through three senatorial Job and Skills Hubs delivering digital, artisan, and agri-enterprise tracks tied to job placements; an MSME Growth Fund offering single-digit interest and equipment leasing with market linkages; expanded graduate internships in MDAs and partner firms; and an annual Kwara Innovation Fair to reward creativity and technology.
I will strengthen education by recruiting and training teachers on merit with rural incentives; making schools safe and functional with fencing, water, toilets, and power; strengthening technical and vocational pathways; awarding bursaries and scholarships on need and merit; and sourcing school feeding from local farmers.
The government will put primary healthcare first by revamping PHCs with staff, drugs, power, water, and basic diagnostics within thirty minutes of every community; prioritising maternal and child health; deploying ambulance tricycles for hard-to-reach wards; driving health-insurance enrolment for informal workers and vulnerable groups; and holding quarterly community feedback on service quality.
Together we will boost agriculture and food security with timely inputs; clusters around storage and processing; farm-to-market roads and solar cold rooms in major markets; mobile extension agents; youth agri-entrepreneurs supported with land, mechanisation, and off-taker agreements; and micro-irrigation schemes to reduce climate risk.
My team will deliver roads, water, and power by publishing a four-year infrastructure pipeline with costs and timelines and finishing abandoned projects; rehabilitating and reticulating rural water schemes where feasible with WASH facilities in schools and PHCs; lighting township roads; and partnering on mini-grids for productive-use clusters.
We will place the girl-child and women at the centre of our renewal by keeping girls in school with free sanitary pad banks in all public secondary schools, safe toilets and water, scholarships for indigent girls, and transport support in remote wards; reducing teenage pregnancy and child marriage through community dialogues with parents and traditional leaders, a firm school re-entry policy for young mothers, and a confidential helpline with counselling; opening new pathways with Girls-in-STEM clubs, coding bootcamps, an annual science fair, and mentorship with women professionals; expanding economic power through a Women Enterprise Window under the MSME Fund, creche support for working mothers, and stronger response to gender-based violence including safe shelters and legal aid; and setting a clear target of thirty-five percent women in appointments and boards while publishing an annual Gender Scorecard.
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