No plan to recall Ondo federal lawmaker ―APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituency of Ondo state on Wednesday, denied plans to recall the lawmaker representing the constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr Bamidele Baderinwa.

Speaking during a Press conference in Akure, the state capital, the APC youth leader in Ifedore, Mr Adewale Adekunle, said there was no plan to mobilise the people of the constituency to recall the lawmaker, describing those behind the moves as faceless.

Adewale expressed satisfaction with the dividends of democracy the lawmaker was able to attract to the two local government areas he represents at the lower House, saying the achievements recorded in the last two years are unprecedented in the history of giving quality representation in the area and there was no reason to recall him.

He said: “We wish to state clearly that Hon. Bamidele Baderinwa has not defaulted on giving our constituency its deserved quality representation at the National Assembly. He has neither abandoned his people nor the constituency.

“He visits the constituency regularly and operates two functional constituency offices, one at Idanre and the other at Ifedore, where complaints are collated and attended to. There are evidences of his projects and philanthropic activities across the constituency.”

The APC youth leader listed some of the projects executed by the lawmaker to include, the electrification of Aba Aro Community in Ifedore; grading and maintenance of roads, provision of motorised boreholes, distribution of cocoa pesticides and cash to 300 farmers and empowerment of aged people in the constituency with cash donations.

Others included donation of two Hilux Vans to the Divisional Police Headquarters in the Constituency, wheel chairs and cash to physically challenged people and yearly presentation of cars as gifts to  people in the Constituency.

According to Adewale, the lawmaker has also built a block of classrooms at Ikota Community Primary School in Ifedore and sponsored over 500 youths for training in vocational education and small and medium scale enterprises.

He however tagged those calling for the lawmaker’s recall as enemies of progress, saying that their aim was to destroy the popularity of the party in the federal constituency.

He said: “The youth group is unknown in our federal constituency. As the APC youth leader, I know all the youth groups in the constituency. This one calling for the recall of Baderinwa is faceless and fake.

“There is nothing like starting the process of recalling our representative in the National Assembly. The main objective of the sponsors of the faceless group is to undermine the popularity of our party in the federal constituency by casting the lawmaker in bad light.

“We also gathered that some prominent members of our party in the constituency were the sponsors of the faceless group because of the politics of 2019. We are not sure yet. But if what we have gathered about them is true, we urge them to desist.

“These people should realize that by feeding the public wrong information about any member of APC holding public office because of 2019 politics is as good as destroying the strength of the party. Our unity will always remain the strength of our party.”

A group of youths under the auspices of the Idanre/Ifedore Youth Coalition last week said it had begun to mobilise the people of the constituency to start the process of recalling the Baderinwa.

The group alleged that Baderinwa had abandoned the federal constituency for a long time and that he had not made any positive impact in the lives of his constituents since he started representing them at the National Assembly.