Makinde Will Do Better In Second Term – Commissioner

Oyo State commissioner for information and civic orientation, Prince Dọtun Oyelade, has assured residents of the state that Governor Seyi Makinde will outperform his first term legacy.

He described as a phobia the suggestion that Makinde’s second term performance would not match his first term achievements.

According to him, every activity of the state government is a pointer to how serious Governor Seyi Makinde takes his second term mandate.

Oyelade who stated this when the management of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) paid him a courtesy call in his office, said, ‘’In the first five months of Seyi Makinde’s second term 1,174 teachers were promoted to level 17 because of the governor’s policy not to tie teachers’ promotions to availability of vacancies.

“Since the commencement of Omituntun 2.0, Governor Makinde’s administration has opened up roads including the commissioning of the 34km Oyo-Iseyin Road and the relocation of 1,533 200l-evel undergraduates from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso to the newly established Faculty of Agriculture and Renewal Science at Iseyin”.

Oyelade also referred to the over N4 billion that the government had spent on the Strategic Action for Economic Recovery (SAfER) programme, to alleviate the suffering of the poorest of the poor as a result of the recent fuel subsidy removal.

These, he added included the N1 billion released to the Oyo State Agricultural Credit Corporation for farmers across the state just last week.

“Only yesterday, the  workers’ wage bill was increased by N2.2 billion per month as a result of the new N25,000 wage award which the governor has given to the state workers and N15,000  for pensioners,” he said.