Oyo North: Fatai Buhari Turns Empowerment to Weekly Affairs, Donates Multi Millions Items to Farmers
Oyo North: Fatai Buhari Turns Empowerment to Weekly Affairs, Donates Multi Millions Items to Farmers.
The ‘Mega Empowerment’ programme which started in September, 2020 and turned weekly occurrences has taken another dimension as farmers in Oyo North Senatorial District will go home with various farming and agricultural items.
Senator Buhari Abdulfatai has again converged farmers in thousands selected from the 13 Local Government Areas that made up the senatorial district at the Town Hall, Iganan in Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State to give them dividends of democracy as part of his efforts to boost their occupation, farming.
The empowerments that gulped multi millions of naira has over 1000 bags of fertilizers, 1000 Sprayers, 1000 bottles of Weed Crusher Chemical, 1000 bottles of Syngenta Chemical for grasses and weeds clearing for farmers.
In his address, Senator Buhari thanked God and appreciated all electorates in Oyo North for giving him their mandates to represent them in the Senate for the second term.
He hinted; “It was a known fact that beneficiaries were not selected from political party’s folds alone. I represent everyone in Oyo North and no matter their political affiliations,I shall give everyone what belongs to him or her at the appropriate time”.
He added that beneficiaries should make best use of the items to better their livings, that of their families and our nation at large.
Speaking on behalf of Chairman, All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Chief Akin Oke, The Chairman APC, Oyo North, Alhaji Arikewu Abdulrasaq confirmed that Senator Buhari Abdulfatai has been representing the district very well.
Alhaji Arikewu hinted that the lawmaker has done the best for people of Oyo North especially Oke Ogun by pushing for establishment of Federal University of Agriculture and Technology.
He reiterated that Senator Buhari has not disappointed APC and entire of Oyo North Senatorial District.
In his remarks, one of the party leader in Oke Ogun, Alhaji Dauda Oladimeji Wasiu described Senator Buhari as a good representative whose representation in government should be sustained by people of the district.
He charged farmers in Oyo North to embrace APC so that dividends of democracy can continue to be enjoyed.
It shall be recalled that in the last week of 2020, over 600youths were trained on tiling works while the previous weeks in the last months of the year witnessed training and empowerment of youths on ICT, Tie and Dye, Cosmetology, Barbing and Hairdressing, Modern Farming Techniques and Tools, Fish Farming and Poultry Productions.
More than 5000 youths have been fully trained and given startup capital of minimum of 30,000 naira apart from equipment that worth hundreds of thousands of naira given to each of the beneficiaries.
