Nigeria, Feb. 14 -- Mayowa Akinfolarin, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ondo State, has pledged to industrialise the state using the template used by the Second Republic governor of the state, Adekunle Ajasin.

The late Mr Ajasin, who governed the old Ondo State (comprising today's Ekiti State that wass carved out in 1996) between 1979 and 1983 on the platform of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), established state-owned companies in various parts of the state based essentially on proximity to raw materials to industrialise the state. Some of the companies his government established were the Oluwa Glass Company, near Igbokoda, Okitipupa Oil Palm Company, the cocoa-processing compan...