Five years later, he described his administration’s journey so far as challenging, saying his faith in God brought the victory he desired.
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has recalled the activities leading to his emergence as governor, saying his predecessor fought against his emergence.Though he didn’t specify any name in particular, the governor said the person in power at the time rather chose to campaign for a candidate of another party.
“The last five years of governance over the state of Ogun for me has been one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. It’s been extremely turbulent, it’s been very challenging, particularly, it has been rancorous. But the most important thing is that in all of this, God has given us victory.” One such step, according to him, is the plan to make Ogun an oil-producing State, as the Ministry of Petroleum Resources would soon begin oil exploration in the state.“Only on Friday, the leadership of the Ministry of Petroleum led by the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources , Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, was here with three others and the chairman of Shell to announce that they would soon begin to drill oil in Ogun State,” he said.
“I read on one of the papers that someone was saying that he was embarrassed that I was commissioning an 8-kilometre road, and a counterpart of mine was commissioning a 77-kilometre road,” he said, adding that he had learnt not to respond to such ignorant remarks.
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