Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has vowed that his second term in office would see his administration focus more on public utilities like water supply and uniterupted power supply.
Abiodun made the vow at the Presidential Lodge during a meeting with members of the Ogun State Community Development Council and the Ogun State Cooperatives Federated Limited on Monday.
Both had come to congratulate the Governor on his victory at the just concluded polls in the state, while noted that his administration would continue to ensure that it leaves up to the fulfillment of its electioneering promises.
The Governor also added that his administration is poised to remain lacer focused so that at the end of the second term, his legacies, investment made would continue to speak for his eight year tenure.
Abiodun stated that there are plans meant to provide independently powered electricity to major towns and cities, noting that the plans would see electricity from national grid readily available to smaller towns and villages in Ogun.
He said that the availability of electricity both from independent source and the national grid would help drive the industrial revolution of his administration while vowed to work assiduously provide electricity in Abeokuta, Ota, Ijebu-Ode and Sagamu in the first instance.
Abiodun who added that his administration would also focus more on youth development and job creation like it was done in the past, disclosed that the state would ensure the host of the best National Sports Festival in the history of the festival in the country.
The Governor noted that the Kajola Dry Port would be implemented in the Kajola Free Trade Zone, pointing out that once the port is completed for use, cargo’ll be shipped directly to Ogun, thereby reducing demorhage and creating job opportunities for the people in the state.
On education, the governor said his administration would continue to ensure the state dominance in the education sector.
Whilst ensuring that schemes like the broiler project where day old chicks were given to some young men and women through some of its partners, the Anchor Borrowers Programme are fully promoted and implemented in the second term.
Abiodun noted that the 7,000 members of Ogun State Development Council and Ogun State Cooperatives Federated Limited that has received their letters as Social Investment Assistants would soon begin to receive their remuneration.
He added that it is his hope that they would help his administration to reach the grassroots at any point in time his administration plans to intervene and educate the people of the state
In their remarks, the State chairman, Ogun State Cooperatives Federated Limited, Alhaji Wasiu Olaleye and his counterpart in the Ogun State Community Development Council; Akogun Lucien Taiwo, who both thanked the Governor.
Especially for appointing some of their members as Social Investment Assistants, also commended him for the grants giving to some of the community development associations in the state.