Ekiti 2018: Ojudu Launches Crowd Funding Initiative

MICHAEL AKINOLA

In a unique attempt at giving power to the ordinary people, Special Adviser On Political Matters to President Mohammadu Buhari and leading aspirant in the coming Guber election in Ekiti State, Senator Babafemi Ojudu has asked Ekiti people to take ownership of governance by investing in his campaign.

Ojudu, who has launched the Crowd Funding initiative online, is anxious to see voters take ownership of the campaign process and eventually governance itself.
In a statement made available to the media on Tuesday stated that the launch of the public driven website has seen unprecedented human traffic.

“As activities for the March 9, 2018 formal declaration of the intention of Senator Babafemi Ojudu to compete for the ticket of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship election coming up in Ekiti on July 14th 2018 gain momentum, the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters has launched a website with a first of its kind Political Crowd funding platform in Nigeria.

The website- www.babafemiojudu.net – launched Tuesday and is already seeing unprecedented traffic from far and wide.
The website welds the story of the internationally acclaimed journalist, astute politician and one of the leaders of the APC in Ekiti, with his legislative and executive experiences as well as his vision for transforming Ekiti into ‘a prosperous State where Life is More Meaningful for the People’.

Keeping in line with Ojudu’s penchant for the unusual and his desire for a people-oriented movement, a first of its kind crowd funding platform was also launched on the website.

This platform enables well-meaning Ekiti sons & daughters, friends, as well as well wishers to begin to support the campaign materially, thereby “owning it from day one”.

The Presidential aide expressed optimism that through the website, which also links seamlessly with the viral social media networks of his campaign, would afford the young people in Ekiti as well as voters of all ages to directly engage with him.

A monthly media chat on his Facebook Page (BabafemiOjudu 2018) which saw almost 3,000 views on its debut especially within Ekiti and its Diaspora has already been launched.

The recently unveiled Manifesto tagged the F-I-N-E Agenda also features prominently on the website to ensure that the formula of combining knowledge and enterprise to yield development and prosperity is carried to all nooks and crannies of the world where Ekiti sons, daughters and well wishers reside.

This website and crowd funding platform launch establishes Ojudu’s desire to connect with all strata of Ekitians, as he embarks on the mission to salvage Ekiti with the Ekiti Rebirth Organisation (ERO) and other stakeholders who sincerely believe that indeed a positively different Ekiti is possible.

The pictures of the grassroots movement and live video feeds would be going forward be integrated to this dynamic platform that will not only inform, but also mobilize and engage the people of Ekiti who are the true owners of the campaign.