Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has declared that his Administration will create a different Oyo State where citizens are law-abiding despite the many challenges they are faced with.
The governor also said that the State would soon come up with legislation to restore order and sanity in the society.
The governor said this on Monday during the inauguration of Bolaji Ayorinde-led Oyo State Advisory Council held at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office in Ibadan, adding that the State would soon come up with legislation to restore order and sanity in the society.
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BusinessDay reports that members of the State Advisory Council inaugurated by the governor included Bolaji Ayorinde, SAN as Chairman; Monsurat Sunmonu, Hosea Agboola; Gbenga Babalola, Kamorudeen Adedibu, Babatunde Oduyoye, Michael Lana and Bashiru Ajibade.
This was as the governor inaugurated the Governing Council of the Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo, chaired by an indigene of Oyo town, Ayoade Ogunkunle, a professor. Other members of the University’s Governing Council are; Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye; Professors Abass Aderemi Adedibu, Isaac Aderibigbe Koleoso and Funmilayo Okikiola Orisadeyi.
Speaking shortly before the inauguration of the Advisory Council, Governor Makinde stated that the Council is a sort of feedback mechanism for the administration.
The governor maintained that the members of the State Advisory Council have a huge role to play in calling the attention of the government to the myriad of issues affecting the people, including the poverty and deprivation in the land, challenges in the security, education and health sectors as well as in the area of maintenance of social order, among others.
He said, “I want to say thank you to the chairman and the members of the Advisory Council. It is a thankless job that you have taken. The Council is extremely important in getting feedback for the administration to ensure that decisions are taken in the best interest of the state.
“I have been here for four years and six months and I do know that when our people come in with an idea, we have to dig a little bit deeper to see whether that idea is in the best interest of the generality of our people or the best interest of the individual bringing the advice. So, the intersection of personal versus group interest is where you have to stand.
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“There is hunger and poverty in the land as well as other serious challenges we are facing as a country. There is nothing that is happening nationally that you would not see here. Every major intersection is a market. We have security issues, pressure around the mining communities and an education system with infrastructure deficits.”
