The Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde has made it known to the public that the reason why the state is recording progress in economic development and the peaceful political firmament is a result of freedom of political participation as against the usual norm where political god fathers in the past held sway and dictated the tune for the political god sons.
He attributed his success in government to the absence of political godfather that would have lorded his personal agenda on him as against what he has for the state.
Makinde, while speaking further at the state of State public address currently ongoing at the Oyo State House of Assembly, claimed that his government has made sure that the resources of the state are judiciously spent on meaningful projects that will impact the lives of the citizenry.
He highlighted some of his achievements in the last one year which included the rapid social safety intervention to ameliorate the sufferings of the people ocassioned by the economic challenges that trailed the removal of subsidy and floating of exchange rate.
He spoke on his agric revolution initiative which his administration embarked on by rehabilitating all farm settlements as well as road network intervention in Oke-Ogun which included the reconstruction of Ibadan-Iseyin road, Oyo-Iseyin road and Ogbomoso-Iseyin road. He affirmed that the State is becoming regional agric business hub and that his administration is ready to open the State for more investments.
He was quoted as saying, “we are working assiduously to ensure that the state is driven through agric revolution. We have invested heavily in agriculture and we are expecting to see the result soon.
“It is laughable when some critics say we have not made money through our intervention, I tell them that government does not have business in running businesses, our own intention is to create enabling environment for industry to thrive and we are optimistic that our investment will start yielding results for the overall benefit of all the people of Oyo State.
“In education, I have instructed that there should be an infrastructural development in public schools and I have equally instructed that 7000 teachers should be recruited into SUBEB and additional 7000 teachers be equally recruited into TESCOM”, said Makinde.