Election victory: Akingbade felicitates Tinubu, Shettima, urges farmers to grab next govt’s agricultural policy

Ahead of the swearing-in of the president-elect, Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his vice Alhaji Kasim Shettima, an agriculturalist, Otunba Yomi Akingbade while congratulating them, urged farmers in the country to grab the next Government’s agricultural policy.

Akingbade said the election victory of President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Kasim Shettima, Vice President-Elect expressed hope that Nigeria populace and farmers would benefit bountifully from the agricultural policy to be initiated by the Tinubu’s government.

The chieftain of All Progressives Congress APC in Ondo State, Akingbade noted this on Tuesday, in a statement, while appreciating Nigerians for electing Tinubu as President and Shettima as Vice President respectively.

The businessman said Tinubu and Shettima’s victory on February 25th Presidential election was divine, adding that Tinubu’s incoming government would bring prosperity and growth to the country.

He posited that Tinubu’s agricultural policy would ensure food security and employment for the populace and particularly the youth.

According to him, “As a farmer and agriculturalist, I want to believe that the agricultural sector has not been given adequate or much attention by the Federal Government, and this is one area we want the President-Elect, Tinubu to focus on to exploit and harness the socio-economic potentials in the agric sector.”

He also called on farmers in the country, particularly the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN to strongly collaborate and work with Tinubu to give proper attention to the agricultural sector.