{"id":66985,"date":"2025-05-31T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66985"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:20:10","slug":"braimoh-decries-neglect-of-okunland-urges-unity-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/31\/braimoh-decries-neglect-of-okunland-urges-unity-for-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Braimoh Decries Neglect of Okunland, Urges Unity for Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Otunba Olayinka Braimoh, the 2023 Kogi governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), has decried the long-standing neglect of Okunland, urging indigenes to unite and champion development in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the opening of the second Okun Nation Summit in Kabba, Braimoh emphasized that Okunland suffers from poor infrastructure and limited political representation, which have stunted the area&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>The summit, organized by the Okun Development Initiative (ODI), had as its theme \u201cOkun Unity: Power of One Voice, the Strength of Many Hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that his hometown, Akutupa Kiri in Kabba-Bunu LGA, has never had electricity and lacks motorable roads, making economic activities like farming difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pattern in Kogi shows that areas that have produced governors have developed more due to better budgetary attention and appointments,\u201d he noted, calling for equity in leadership and resource allocation across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Braimoh urged the people of Okunland to build strategic alliances, think critically, and make sacrifices for the collective good, stressing that only through unity and shared vision can true progress be achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye &nbsp; Otunba Olayinka Braimoh, the 2023 Kogi governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), has decried the long-standing neglect of Okunland, urging indigenes to unite and champion development in the region. Speaking at the opening of the second Okun Nation Summit in Kabba, Braimoh emphasized that Okunland suffers from poor infrastructure and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66987,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions\/66987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}