Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, last weekend, took members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) round iconic projects undertaken by his administration, declaring that his focus is to move the state...
• ‘We’ll Sustain Devt, If Re-Elected’
While addressing members of the NGE when he hosted them at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, Makinde said that he would leave the state in better shape if re-elected. He added: “When we leave here, we will have a stop-over at a model primary school at Bodija. From there, we will go to the Amotekun headquarters, because security is one of the major pillars of our accelerated development .
“We will see a model PHC at Iseyin because our target is to have one functional PHC in all the 351 wards in the state. The idea is for people not to go beyond 1km radius from wherever they are living to access primary health care facilities. “Once I had the opportunity of talking to one of the top officials with Air Peace, they complained that they cannot carry a full passenger load to Ibadan because they have to take enough fuel to bring passengers and take them back to Abuja.
“About 10 kilometres of that road has been completed right now and the importance of the road are two; one is that it will be the first circular road, because once you are coming from Lagos and going to NNPC, you go straight on that road and if you leave the Abeokuta-Ibadan road, you can make a right turn, you get to Ring Road junction and at the right turn, you get to Challenge.
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