I’ve Contributed To Growth Of Ibadan, CCII, Says Makinde

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has reeled out his administration’s scorecard of projects executed within Ibadan metropolis and declared that he had contributed immensely to the growth of Ibadanland and the apex socio-cultural group, the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII).

The governor, who made the declaration during an event hosted by Ibadan social-cultural clubs, where he was conferred with the title of Aare Jagunmolu of Ibadanland, said he always took the interests and peace of Ibadanland into consideration before taking decisions in government.

The governor, while speaking at the Emeritus Professor Theophilus Ogunlesi Hall, UCH, Ibadan venue of the event, recalled that before he assumed office as governor, he had donated up to N120 million to CCII from his personal purse.

The event was attended by the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun; foremost industrialist, Chief Bode Amoo; the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta states, Alhaji Daud Akinola and Ambassador Ibironke Adefope, among other eminent Ibadan sons and daughters.

Governor Makinde, who noted that his administration had in the last three and a half years delivered projects that had helped reposition the city of Ibadan and the entire state, explained the vision for his second term campaign slogan, “Omituntun 2.0,” declaring that if re-elected, he would concentrate on efforts to make the developments already recorded sustainable.

Speaking on the Ibadan traditional institution, the governor stated that he was not opposed to ideas of reform to the institution, noting that such reform should emanate from the Olubadan-in-Council and the Kabiyesi and not from the government.

He added that whatever reforms the council and the Olubadan resolved to bring to the government, he would endorse.