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Biodun Oyebanji
18 quotes
“Thank you so much for this question, it is good feedback. I believe that the best assessment of any government is by the Ekiti people and if it is coming from you the journalists, that tells me that it is a position that one has to take seriously. As a government, we have a contract with the Ekiti people and we promised ourselves that we would work for them.”
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“I am a product of a system, I ran on the platform of a political party and when I went to canvass for their votes during primaries, I made certain promises to them based on the feedback we got from party members”
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“As a leader, it is good to think globally, but it is better to act locally because we are products of this environment. So, at the end of the day, they recommended three names per local government because the committee went around the state for eight weeks collating curricula vitae, interviewing them and don’t forget that the committee was headed by a retired permanent secretary, late Chief George Akosile and we had the like of ex-deputy governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu.”
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“Before becoming governor, I had already spent 11 years in public service. I started as Senior Special Assistant, later became Special Adviser, and eventually served as Chief of Staff to Governor Niyi Adebayo. We left the office in 2003. Then, Dr Kayode Fayemi came in 2010, after a seven-year hiatus. I worked with him for four years in three different capacities: Commissioner for Integration and Intergovernmental Affairs; Head of the Office of Strategy and Service Delivery; and Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning.”
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“What you teach” speaks to the currency and relevance of the curriculum.How you teach” focuses on teaching methods, teacher motivation, and welfare. Where you teach” concerns the learning environment, whether it is conducive and inspiring.”
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“We are going to be deliberate in our efforts on agriculture and cater for the informal sector of the economy and the Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises because those are the engines of growth.”
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“The next two years is to ensure that we scale up our intervention in agriculture and also creating platforms for SMEs to thrive. We must make our economy to be productive because productivity is the key to prosperity”
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“We have used the last two years to lay a very solid foundation for economic growth and development of this state. We campaigned on the mantra of shared prosperity but the people will not prosper if we didn’t put some things in place.”
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“I don’t know if I am in the best position to assess myself, but so far so good, what we have seen in those places we have gone to is that people are happy with us, people have shown appreciation to the little we have been able to do.”
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“I believe that politics ended after my swearing in as the Governor of the state and that day I took an oath to protect the constitution of this country and to serve the people regardless of political affiliation.”
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“What we have been doing is that we usually take overdraft from banks to pay salaries before the federal allocation comes into our account. We have not borrowed a dime from any financial institution to run the state in the last two years”
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“The secret is that I am an apostle of what they call soft power and leadership. It means you know that you have the power but you are careful not to misuse it”
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“Aside this, there has been an increment in the revenue allocation from the Federal Government, and also there has been a major increase in our IGR. We met our IGR at about N600 million per month, but I can tell you that as of today, we are doing N1.5 billion per month and it keeps increasing every month.”
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“As the Governor, I see all of us as the indigenes of Ekiti not belonging to party A ,B or C. I also note that an average human being deserves to be respected and as a leader you need to humble yourself and respect your people”
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“We are also exploring the possibilities of renewable energy but this requires a lot of study and once it is done it is going to be combination of renewable energy and the hydro we have in the state.”
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“The town hall meeting is not new, it is a carryover from the former administration, and that speaks to the continuity agenda.”
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“But what is important for me is that we believe strongly that as a government, you don’t just sit in the office and rule over the people. There is need for engagement and also to ask the people about their own perspective and what they will like to see in the budget, because government is about the people.”
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“We have done the electricity audit of the state, the way we are now, we are off the national grid; we get electricity from neighboring states and the federal government is trying to put in place two other sub-stations in Ilupeju-Ekiti and Ijesa Isu and they told me it is going to take two years to finish it.”
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