By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ado-Ekiti
A member of the House of Representatives representing Ikole Ekiti/Oye Federal Constituency (I), Mr. Bmbo Daramola, yesterday declared that President Goodluck Jonathan lacked the power to make the National Conference report implementable.
Describing the promise by President Jonathan to implement the conference reports if re-elected into office in March 28, as “misleading and belated,” Daramola urged Nigerians not to take the President serious on the issue, saying that “he alone cannot make the confab report workable without passing through the National Assembly’s scrutiny.”
Daramola, a stalwart of the All Progressive Congress (APC), who is seeking re-election come March 28, made the statement during a campaign tour of over 40 communities in the Ikole and Oye local governments.
Daramola, who said the President got it wrong by declaring that he would implement the reports if elected in this week Saturday’s Presidential poll, called on Nigerian and Ekiti electorates not to be deceived by what he referred to as “mere campaign gimmicks” on the part of the president
Rather, the federal lawmaker declared in vehement terms that the powers to make the report implementable or otherwise resided only in the National Assembly, and not in the presidency.
On the distribution of dividends of democracy to his constituents, Daramola disclosed that towns such as Ara/Ikole, Omu and Osin which had for long been deprived of portable water were provided with the commodity through motorized boreholes funded by him.
Besides, he said 40 Solar Panel Poles electricity were provided to supply illumination to two towns of Oye and Ikole-Ekiti.
The lawmaker said no fewer than 26 persons were also given gainful employment in various government ministries and establishments through his personal influence.
This, he said, was in addition to distribution of farm implements, 48 cars and 38 tricycles to rural farmers and artisans, promising to do more if re-elected
Daramola urged voters who had collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to use them wisely by ensuring that they voted for all candidates of the APC.
“Jonathan does not have such powers to implement reports of last year’s National Conference in the first place, it is the two chambers of the National Assembly that can discuss and approve of any implementation where applicable, why is he using that as a campaign topic wherever he goes?”