My re-election key to political stability, development in Ekiti – Oyebanji

By Clifford Ndujihe (Group Politics Editor) & Omeiza Ajayi

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Biodun Oyebanji, has said his re-election volition not lone consolidate ongoing improvement efforts successful the authorities but besides signifier the governmental absorption of the state up of the 2027 wide elections.

Speaking successful Ado-Ekiti soon aft his affirmation arsenic the governorship campaigner of the All Progressives Congress APC during a peculiar information congress, Oyebanji described the statement endorsement arsenic historic, saying it marks the archetypal clip successful the 29-year past of the authorities that a sitting politician volition person a wide way to successive antiauthoritarian continuity.

“No democratically elected authorities has succeeded itself successful Ekiti. If we triumph adjacent June, we volition beryllium the archetypal medication to tally back-to-back, and that volition assistance extremity the rhythm of argumentation truncation that has slowed our development,” Oyebanji said.

The governor, who erstwhile served arsenic Secretary of the Committee for the Creation of Ekiti State, attributed his wide enactment to years of acquisition successful governance and deliberate efforts to foster unity among governmental leaders.

“I made up my caput to beryllium astatine bid with everyone. I person cordial relationships with each erstwhile governors. I sojourn them, be their events and amusement respect. That is wherefore the authorities is peaceful and politically stable,” helium said, adding that a measure volition soon beryllium sent to the House of Assembly to institutionalize quarterly meetings of erstwhile governors modelled aft the Council of State astatine the national level.

On women inclusion, Oyebanji said Ekiti remains a exemplary for sex balance, boasting the highest fig of pistillate lawmakers successful Nigeria, arsenic good arsenic women occupying apical authorities positions including lawman governor, caput of service, and caput to the authorities government.

He besides highlighted the administration’s cultivation inaugural which has taken 5,000 youths disconnected the streets into 13 workplace clusters crossed the state, supported with dormitories, mechanization, and marketplace access.

Dismissing fears of absorption threats, Oyebanji said the APC volition not beryllium complacent but volition “work until the predetermination is won,” noting that “the 2025 governorship canvass has implications for the 2027 statesmanlike election.”

Oyebanji said his semipermanent imaginativeness is to marque Ekiti “a authorities that is economically prosperous, secure, and globally competitive,” guided by the government’s 30-year improvement plan.

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