Democracy Day: My Administration Has Delivered – Ajimobi

Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has declared that his administration has delivered dividends of democracy to the people of the state in the last seven years. 

The governor, in a statement by his Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy, Mr. Bolaji Tunji, yesterday, gave his administration a pass mark, particularly in infrastructure development, security, education, agriculture and health care.

He said his government had built more roads than all the previous administrations combined since the inception of the fourth republic.

He listed some the completed roads to include the dualisation of strategic township roads in Ibadan such as Toll Gate interchange-Challenge; New Garage-Toll Gate Interchange and Onireke-Jericho-Aleshinloye- Dugbe-Agbarigo Road, as well dualisation of major township roads in Oyo, Ogbomoso and Iseyin.

Ongoing roads include Eleyele-Ologuneru-Eruwa road, dualisation of Saki township roads, Idi-Ape-Basorun-Akobo-Odogbo Barracks Junction Road; Gate-Old Ife Road-Alakia, as well as the expansion of Oke Adu-Iwo Road, the governor disclosed.

He did not leave out the construction of the Mokola flyover, the first to be done by any civilian administration in the state, as well as the revived Ibadan Circular Road project, which had remained a dream in the last 15 years, adding that the first phase of the project has been awarded to ENL Consortium Limited at the cost of N70bn, under a build, operate and transfer arrangement.

The governor also said the infrastructure upgrade included the urban flood management initiative targeted at checking the reoccurrence of the 2011 flooding in Ibadan, which consumed many lives and property.

He said the government had also tackled the perennial water shortage, which residents of Ibadan had been experiencing, by carrying out wholesale rehabilitation of Asejire Waterworks and also recently flagged off rehabilitation works on the Eleyele Dam, which was badly hit by the 2011 flood disaster.

According to Ajimobi, the state also recorded milestones in education with “the floating of the Education Trust Fund through which stakeholders now collaborate with the government to improve service delivery and boost the standard of education in the state”.

“This is aside the establishment of the Oyo State Model Education System Initiative (OYOMESI), which seeks to inculcate moral values in students and the School Governing Board (SGB) policy, which is a participatory model that brings together all stakeholders in the education system in the management of public secondary schools.