Ekiti State Commissioner for Youth Development, Adesola Adedayo, has said that Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s continuity agenda remains the best option for Ekiti citizens to build a state they can be proud of.
Adedayo, who described Oyebanji as a transformational leader, said, “Continuity of the present government till 2030 will ensure economic stability, infrastructure facelift, security, and youth development that are gradually savouring a meteoric upswing in the policies of government.”
The commissioner, who spoke in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday while playing host to some youth groups in his office, hailed the governor for redefining politics, economy, and governance through peace-building initiatives, partnerships, and the prudent management of resources accruing to the state.
He described those jostling to take over leadership from Oyebanji as “neophytes, who are not vastly grounded in leadership and governance. Nobody will be allowed to manifest mediocrity in leadership in the state when there is a qualified individual to drive it to prosperity.
“Ekiti State can’t afford to fall back into a trial-and-error kind of leadership by ushering a neophyte to govern the state when the state already has a leader who is consolidating on the foundation laid by his predecessors.”
Adedayo said the Ekiti people were already enthralled by the politics of civility that had united all political tendencies and raised infrastructure standards to a higher pedestal, being led by Governor Oyebanji, describing these as the best path to posterity.
He said, “Just take a look at the opposition candidates, none of them has professed having any master plan that is better than what Governor Biodun Oyebanji is offering.
“The antecedents of those angling to wrest power from the governor didn’t speak volumes. They only manifest that all of them are neophytes in governance, unlike the governor, who had been appointed as Special Assistant, Chief of Staff, two-time commissioner, and Secretary to the State Government before assuming this present office.
“As we speak today, what the people need is a good manifestation of governance deeply rooted in performance and experience, not a trial-and-error kind of leadership that will reverse the development gear back to the days of locusts.”
Adedayo said, “Oyebanji has blazed the trail and remains an enigma through airport project that has connected Ekiti to the world, the ultra modern Ado Ekiti flyover, the strategically located intra and inter city roads, rural road accessibility, commercial agriculture that has employed over 4,500 youths, employment of over 20,000 to formal and informal sectors and training of over 2,000 of youths in digital education, among others.”
He enjoined the Ekiti electorate to rebuff the tantrums of the opposition, claiming that Oyebanji has not performed creditably, and to vote massively to retain him in power till 2030.
The commissioner said, “When Governor Oyebanji came into office, the internally generated revenue was undulating between N700m and N800m monthly, but today, Ekiti rakes in between N2.5bn and N3bn monthly. Besides this masterpiece achievement, Ekiti now has a digitalized Revenue House that has blocked all loopholes in tax collection.”
Adedayo maintained that the continuity agenda, which Oyebanji represented, was more of a favour to the state, owing to its impressive advantages, than a favouritism to enhance the governor’s political prowess and attainments.
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