Jegede puts foods on tables of needy in Ondo amid COVID-19

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in 2016 governorship election in Ondo State, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) has donated food items to party leaders and other members of the public aimed at cushioning the effects of the restrictions occasioned by pandemic coronavirus.

Jejege used the occasion to advise other well-to-do Nigerians to see the pandemic as a global disaster, and sacrifice resources to aid the needy.

He gave the advice in Akure, the Ondo State capital, when he visited various parts of the state to distribute the food items beneficiaries who cut across the society.

In a statement by one of his aides, Mr. Olumide Ogunkua, Jegede who is also an aspirant in PDP ahead of 2020 governorship election said the disease had caught humanity unawares and posed a lesson in humility and sacrifice.

“Coronavirus was not in any way anticipated or prepared for. But what is uppermost is the two-fold fact that while observing precautionary steps, the well-to-do citizens should rise in support of the poor and the vulnerable” .

Jegede, a former commissioner for justice and attorney general in Ondo state however said his decision to distribute his resources to those in need was not politically motivated.

“I’m not aware that COVID-19 has a political party or belongs to an interest group. It’s like a plague that is threatening human existence.

“We should all realise that only the living can rule and be ruled, govern and be governed,” he stated.

While urging governments at all levels to focus more on the improvement of the health sector, he also appealed that other statutory establishments should not lose focus in respect of their basic responsibilities.

Jegede appealed to other politicians in the state to eschew violence and come together in bond in the interest of the people.