Dr. Atule Ahmadu-Afolabi, a female aspirant, on Wednesday joined the Kogi State governorship race on the platform of the Labour Party.
The medical doctor revealed this to newsmen shortly after picking her nomination forms at the party’s secretariat in Abuja.
Ahmadu-Afolabi said her focus was to harness the economic potentials of the state.
She said: “My main focus is to ensure that Kogi is economically viable through selfless services and Labour Party as we know, is a social democratic party.
“The party carries along professionals, women farmers and everybody to ensure that there is food for us to eat.
“In Kogi State right now, if you are driving around the state you could see hunger physically on faces of people and that has to change.
“That is why I am here to change the narrative for good.
“You all know that it is evidently clear in Kogi State that salaries are being paid in percentile and that is absolutely inhuman.
“You don’t expect people to come to work for 30 days without salary being paid.
“It is undemocratic.”
Ahmadu-Afolabi said that as a mother, her target was to ensure that no Kogi State residents don’t go to sleep on empty stomach.
She also promised to turn around the healthcare service in the state for the better, pledging to establish and equip hospitals to ameliorate the plight of residents.
She also promised to reinvigorate the civil service in the state toward effective and efficient service delivery, saying that the LP would change the narrative of suffering in the state, especially in the civil service, by ensuring prompt salary payment.
Ahmadu-Afolabi promised to work with youths, empower them and create employment opportunities for them.
She promised to involve traditional rulers in community affairs and make them accountable for their youths to reduce the crime rate in the state and make youths would productive.
Ahmadu-Afolabi called on all stakeholders to support her quest to be governor of Kogi State for the good of the state.