Ondo 2024: Jimoh Ibrahim submits forms, promises to tackle insecurity using hi-tech

Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, a leading governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Ondo State, has promised to tackle insecurity in the state using hi-tech, if elected.

Ibrahim, representing Ondo South Senatorial District, made the promise while submitting his Expression of Interest and Nomination forms at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.

Thefrontrank reports that the business mogul cum politician was accompanied to the party secretariat by Senator Tayo Alasoadura, a former Minister of State, Niger Delta Affairs; and some chieftains of the party.

Speaking on the level of insecurity in the country, the governorship hopeful said that the Amotekun Corps would be strengthened and modernised to fight emerging security challenges bedevilling the state.

“On security, I will modernize Amotekun; I will use app to dislodge insecurity. There are apps that can detect insecurity and crimes, these are what I will employ.

“Modern security require this artificial intelligence to combat insecurity.

“Today security is about having the right app to manage the situation. When I become the governor, I will use the military jets to fly drones around to restore security,” Ibrahim said.

The Igbotako-born politician said that the bitumen deposit in the state would be put to the best use with the requisite legislation to make it the mainstay of Ondo state.

“My focus when I become governor, is to ensure that one, the Bitumen, $47 billion seated in Agbabu is extracted.

“I brought the current Bitumen bill before the national assembly and we are now on the third reading of that bill so that we can have a law backing Bitumen.

“So why Bitumen arrangements have been failing is because we don’t have law guiding it,” he noted.

Ibrahim dismissed the insinuation making the rounds about President Bola Tinubu endorsing a candidate going into the primary.

“It is stupid to say you are looking for endorsement, politics is about democracy and democracy is about number.

“Somebody seating down and want to endorse you, that’s not realistic.

“Was Asiwaju endorsed; at the end of the day, he won the election with no endorsement from anybody, you believe is your turn is your turn,” Ibrahim said.