This article highlights the achievements of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq during his five and a half years in office in Kwara State, Nigeria. It showcases his dedication to infrastructural development, urban renewal, economic growth, education reform, and tourism promotion.
It’s three scores and five for a man whose mission to revamp and reposition Kwara to its rightful place of Glory is unwavering.
Born on February 5 1960, the third child of Alhaji Abdul Ganiyu Folorunsho AbdulRazaq , popularly known as AGF, the first lawyer from Northern Nigeria and Alhaja Raliat AbdulRazaq, a Community leader and Gender Advocate.He is a self made man who left the comfort of his wealthy family to venture into business. He dared and conquered the challenging waters of Nigeria’s Oil and Gas industry by establishing the nations first indigenous oil trading company, First Fuels.
As a leader with vision, the two new flyover bridges, the General Babatunde Idiagbon Bridge in Tanke and the Dr Ibrahim Zulu Gambari bridge across Unity road are effective solutions to the perennial and growing traffic snarls across the rapidly expanding city. The arrival and departure of over six flights daily at the General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport is evidence of Ilorin’s expanding status as a travel, business and conference destination over the last five years.
The Visual Arts Centre built for creative and performing Arts will also delight visitors to the State and provide direct and indirect employment for the teeming youths in the State. The AbdulRazaq administration has embarked on an extensive urban renewal campaign with the reconstruction of roads in the State Capital as well as the development of new roads in other major towns and rural areas.In order to attract investments and create jobs in other parts of the State, the Governor has established amongst other projects, an industrial park in Eiyen’korin and a Shea Butter production plant in Kiama local Government in the northern part of the State.
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