My Achievements In 16 Months Have Surpassed APC’s In Eight Years, Makinde Replies Adelabu

Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, has said his achievements in his almost 16 months in office have enveloped what the last All Progressives Congress administration recorded in eight years in the state.

The governor, however, said former governorship candidate of the APC, Bayo Adelabu, could not see these achievements because he had been blinded by his ambition.

Adelabu had during an event to celebrate his 50th birthday attacked Makinde, claiming that the governor had done nothing significant since he came to office in May 2019.

But the governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, on Saturday, said Adelabu had lost touch with reality.

The governor listed electrification projects as one of his achievements while renovation and equipping of primary health centres as well as general hospitals, prompt payment of salaries and gratuities are some of the others.

The statement read, “Even the blind can see the improvements made to the Health sector; everyone can see that the free and qualitative education is yielding fruits; that the security has been taken a top notch; and that the economy is expanding fast with improved infrastructure and revival of moribund companies that harbour huge revenue potentials.”

“Governor Makinde has been paying In excess of N526m per term to primary and secondary schools in the state to cater for the needs of.their pupils and students as part of his free education policy.”

“Unfortunately for him, ( Adelabu), he does not know that by constantly pushing money in excess of N11 billion into the state’s economy every 30 days, Makinde is deliberately reflating Oyo State’s economy and stabilizing the buying power of the people.”

“What is surprising, however, is the fact that Adelabu has allowed his unbridled capitalistic tendencies to blind his eyes to developments in Oyo State, which he sought to govern, to the extent that he could not separate politics from development.”

The governor said his “achievements in 14 months have already outclassed the returns of the eight year tenure of the immediate past APC administration in the state.”

He stated that there has been massive infrastructural development all over the state and that moribund state owned companies had been revived to benefit the people of the state.

“For one, coming out to say that the administration of Governor Makinde has not done any of the things he promised showed that Adelabu has lost touch with reality; his only reality appears to be how to corner landed properties and build ventures for personal gains. If that is not the situation, one wonders how anyone reasonable would close his eyes to the massive infrastructure development going on in the state.

“Fourteen months into the tenure, notwithstanding the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which rattled the world and slowed down the pace of developmental works, the administration of Engineer Makinde has been busy recording one great landmark achievement after the other.

“Even the blind can see the improvements made in the health sector; everyone can see that the free and qualitative education is yielding fruits; that the security has been taken a top notch; and that the economy is expanding fast with improved infrastructure and revival of moribund companies that harbour huge revenue potentials.

“Thanks to the prudence and ingenuity of the Makinde administration, which recently introduced the Alternative Projects Funding Approach the government is presently working on the all-important 67 km Moniya-Iseyin road, to open up the food basket of the state; the 21km Ajia-Airport road; remodeling the Adamasingba Stadium, as well as fixing the abandoned Agbowo shopping complex, Ibadan.”