Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Thursday affirmed that his administration would not relent in delivering good services to people of the state.
The governor made the remark while addressing the management team of Leadership Newspapers during the official presentation of the Governor of the Year 2024 award to the governor.
He however maintained that, his administration would not rest on its laurels revealing that,his administration has reduced the infrastructure deficit in the state by over 40 percentage.
According to him, “Very soon, I will flag off the ongoing remodeling of the Osogbo Stadium to meet international standards.
“Prior to this project, we established the Osun Sports Commission and Osun Sports Fund through the appropriate legal and policy frameworks.
The Governor stated, “I am not allowing the praises to go to my head. While it may be true that I have delivered a four-year task in under two years, I am driven to do more because Osun has been left behind on many fronts.
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“Having reduced the infrastructure deficit by over 40 percent, my real target is even higher. While I have bridged access to primary healthcare, my ambition is to expand health access at medium and tertiary levels.
“Although our records across sectors are commendable, as your newspaper has acknowledged, my ultimate goal is to accelerate infrastructure upgrades alongside boosting soft investments for the well-being of our people.”
He added, “I appreciate your candid endorsement of our performance. It is important to note that your criteria for recognizing us align with the reasons cited by others.
“Our significant governance achievements are undeniable, particularly in workers’ welfare, infrastructure delivery, educational expansion, healthcare access improvement, solid mineral sector reforms, digital economy initiatives, agricultural mechanization, and more.
“Additionally, I will soon launch the dualization of the first phase of the Odoori–Post Office road in Iwo. The contractor for the Iwo–Osogbo road has already mobilized to the site. We plan to complete these projects within the lifespan of this administration.
“Meanwhile, the dualization project in Ilesa is progressing, and the flyover bridge in Ile-Ife is making appreciable progress. The year 2025 will be a period of further expansion in good governance for the benefit of humanity.”
In his own remark, the Vice Chairman of the Leadership Group, Mr. Mike Okpere said, Adeleke’s exceptional performance across all sectors of the economy led to his recognition as Governor of the Year.
According to him, “What we do as our social cooperate responsibility is to give recognition to societal improve as people that improve society , economically or otherwise and this is , we also find it worthy that his excellency be awarded as governor of the year.”
Your excellency you will see that, we didn’t just come down here, we have a meeting for the award and that is why we are here, so this trip is to notify you formally for this award and we personally invite you that from the 8th of April at the banquet hall of the state house Asokoro this award will be handed over to you.”
“Our reputable person of the year is Aliko Dangote, you all are aware of the investment he just concluded, by bringing fuel production into Nigeria because of that and many other things , we chose him our person of the year.”
“Other person’s that could be sharing the merit are other Governors that have touched people’s lives among them is your .. governor from Akwa Ibom, the governor of Enugu state , the governor of jigawa state , the governor of Kano state.”
“We didn’t call this leadership governor of the year, we call it Governor of the year, inorder words what we say, with this recognition will give you an insight and encouragement to do a second term.”
“As a newspaper company, we don’t endorse Governors but when we see something we say it, your Excellency sir our duty is almost done or I want to present the notification and official invitation.”
Also speaking, Vice Chairman Abraham Nda-Isaiah highlighted Adeleke’s achievements in regular salary payments, infrastructure development, healthcare, agriculture, and education as factors that contributed to his selection for the award.
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