Governor Adeleke’s Comprehensive Address to the People of Osun (Full Transcript)

TEXT OF A NEW YEAR ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR ADEMOLA ADELEKE OF OSUN STATE

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The good people of Osun state at home and abroad.

I greet you warmly with best wishes of a prosperous and blessed new year. I convey my intimate prayers that the new year will bring us new opportunities, progress and advancement as a state and in our individual lives.

I extend new year greetings to the elders of Osun state; to our royal fathers; to our religious leaders; to the young and the old; to professional elites, to artisans, to students and to womenfolk. Accept my sincere appreciation for your support before my election and for the last one year of my governorship of our dear state. I am humbled by your prayers and mass backing for our administration.

I remain firmly focussed on the Five Point Agenda under which you, Osun people, elected us into office. We reaffirm our faith in the principles guiding the five point agenda which are transparency and accountability, open government, localisation, responsive leadership and attunement to citizens’ aspirations.

On the strength of the above, our government devised wholesale approach to governance such as:

●Dismantling bobby traps planted by our predecessor,

●Blocking leakages in public finance, ●Addressing the corruption and revenue diversion in the solid mineral sector,

● Restoring local government administration for grassroot development

● Embarking on mass water project provision

● Executing 91 kilometers of road construction

● Implementing free medical surgeries with over 50,000 beneficiaries;

● Total renovation of 31 schools

● Launching sport sector reforms

● Reviving the major commercial and industrial projects of the state

● Pushing for implementation of agric processing zone in Osun state;

● re-professionalisation of the public service;

● Strong attention to workers’ welfare;

● Tapping into tourism, entertainment and cultural potentials of the state;

● Ramping up efforts for a cargo and commercial airport for Osun state, among others.