Ahead of the National Assembly and presidential elections scheduled to hold on 25 February 2023, Kwara South SDP Senate candidate, Professor Olawale Sulaiman, has laid out his 6-Point Plan to improve the lives of indigenes and residents of Kwara South senatorial district.
L-R: Barrister Razaq Alabi, Alhaji Azeez Afolabi, Kwara South SDP senate candidate, Professor Wale Sulaiman, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo and Alhaji Abdulfatah Akorede during the press conference organized by Sulaiman to unveil his ‘Kwara south 2023 Prosperity agenda’ at the NUJ Press Centre, Ilorin on Monday.
Professor Olawale Sulaiman , a neurosurgeon, who is the CEO and Chairman of RNZ Global Ltd. and the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Hippo Technologies, presided over the press conference held at the NUJ Press Centre, Ilorin on Monday to unveil his ‘Kwara south 2023 prosperity agenda’.
The press conference was also attended by SDP bigwigs in the state including the state chairman, Alhaji Abdulazeez Afolabi , chairman of the party in Kwara South, Barrister Razaq Alabi, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, Director General , Asiwaju Ewe Movement, Alhaji Abdulfatah Akorede, Alhaji Khaleel Bolaji, Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/ Oke-Ero SDP reps candidate, Otunba Zubairu Abdulganiyu
Olalekan and SDP House of Assembly candidates; Hon Nurudeen Adesoye and Hon John Adegboye .
The Kwara South SDP senate candidate, a Professor of neurosurgery and spinal surgery, listed his goals to include working towards ensuring that everyone has access to basic health care , promoting development and investments to create jobs for the teeming young people, supporting policies and plans that will protect lives and property of the Kwara South people, ensuring that everyone has access to free primary and secondary school education and ensuring that unique heritage and traditions are protected while policies to reduce poverty and protect the rights of vulnerable citizens will be supported.
He also announced his six-point plan to get these goals achieved which include establishment of Kwara South Development Fund, aggressive lobbying for investment opportunities and funding for ‘our projects’ at the state, national and international levels, formation of think-tank committee for implementation and monitoring of each strategic priority area, a strong grassroots-based leadership structure for regular feedback and prompt responses to our people’s needs and aspirations, regular town-hall meetings and consultations with the constituents and pursuit of innovative and domesticated solutions to ‘our problems’ through engagement of our university researchers and professors.
He also noted that his 6-Point Plan was a product of intense research and investigation including data analysis..
‘I got a consultancy firm to do all of this for me about two years ago’ he disclosed.
Taking questions from journalists including Team@orientactualmags.com , Professor Wale Sulaiman ,who submitted that no government can solely fund health care system anywhere in the world, added that the private sector also has an important role to play in ensuring quality healthcare delivery while emphasizing the need for a predictable income.
He also submitted that without regulating the health sector ‘we cannot get the change we want if we cannot control the quality and safety of patients and bring the cost down’.
‘For any health care system to survive, you need three things; the patients, facilities and a predictable income. Actually, the absence of a predictable income is a major problem affecting health care delivery in Nigeria as nobody will invest in the health sector.
The way to unlock the healthcare system in the country is to aggressively push health insurance to get as many as possible people insured, a lot of people will go bankrupt because they have been made to self-fund medical care, if you need to undergo a surgery that will cost one hundred thousand or one million naira who has that kind of savings? So we need to ensure that the NHIS functions effectively at all levels to get our people insured.
In Kwara state, for a family of four to get access to community or primary health care ,you don’t need to pay more than four or five thousand naira to enjoy such and that is where the Kwara South Development Fund becomes relevant, we have identified vulnerable and indigent population that we need to raise fund to support’ he added .
Giving his take on the introduction of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , Professor Wale Sulaiman said it will enhance integrity of elections in the country.
He called the new electoral law in the country a blessing to Nigerians while submitting that people’s vote will count this time around.
‘We should congratulate President Buhari for taking measures that will make our votes count in the 2023 elections. So I encourage everybody to come out and vote on the Election Day. The elections might not be wholly free and fair as we are still at the level of experimentation in respect of our democracy,but I think we are moving in the right direction.
BVAS will be the magic bullet that will make people’s votes count. I urge our people to come out and vote on the Election Day and they should also protect their votes’ he said- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
