Ajimobi Wails, Says Oyo State Extremely Difficult To Manage
Governor Abiola Ajimobi [/caption]
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, has said that managing the affairs of the state “have been extremely difficult”.
The governor made this disclosure while speaking at the 2017 Inter-Faith service of the state government held at the government house in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday.
According to him, managing the south-western state is a big responsibility as it is bigger than seven other states put together.
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“Maintenance of our infrastructure and executing new ones have been extremely difficult, Ajimobi said.
“Oyo State is a big state. Ibadan alone is bigger than seven states and to govern Oyo State is a big responsibility with big problem and difficult to manage.
“Our IGR is still abysmally low and allocations from federal allocations continue to dwindle. Over 50% of our IGR is from PAYEE and our average monthly allocation from FG is N2.5bn while salaries, subventions, pensions, overhead cost and allowances still stand at about N5.2bn.
“We need survival strategies to block loopholes, renewed IGR drive and restructuring of the public and civil service for optimal performance so that the government will meet its obligations to the people” he said.
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Oyo State, which has a population of over 6 million people, is an inland state in south-western Nigeria, with its capital at Ibadan.
