Amid renewed security concerns in Oke-Ogun, HE Seyi Makinde outlines immediate security interventions and plans to enforce the Open Rearing and Grazing Regulation Law, while ordering a review of SAfER and introducing technology into beneficiary verification and loan disbursement.
Responding to questions about Trans-Amusement Park, HE Seyi Makinde explains why the obsolete facility will give way to housing and a new amusement park at Ilutuntun, while reaffirming tourism as an Omituntun 2.0 growth sector and updating residents on SAfER.
Responding to feedback that PDP-branded SAfER bags made government relief appear partisan, HE Seyi Makinde orders new packaging, expands mass transit routes and invites public input into the 2024 Budget, while updating residents on the Olodo bridge, Oyo–Iseyin Road and LAUTECH Iseyin Campus.
Following the removal of fuel subsidy, HE Seyi Makinde introduces Sustainable Actions for Economic Recovery (SAfER): food relief for 200,000 vulnerable households, support for smallholder farmers and ₦1 billion in low-interest financing for youth agropreneurs and small businesses.
Following INEC’s postponement of the governorship election to 18 March, HE Seyi Makinde restates key Omituntun 2.0 commitments, including free public education, higher internally generated revenue and measurable manifesto promises, while asking voters to renew his mandate.
Following protests over the naira and fuel scarcity, HE Seyi Makinde pauses campaigning to address security and introduces the Omituntun Free Bus Service and other palliatives, before announcing that campaigning will resume once the security situation stabilises.
HE Seyi Makinde highlights a €55 million French facility for upgrading hospitals and primary healthcare infrastructure, explaining its 40-year tenor, 15-year grace period and potential conversion to a grant as an example of his approach to financing sustainable development.
Campaigning across Oyo State’s 33 LGAs, HE Seyi Makinde explains why smaller stakeholder meetings with farmers, traders, students, workers and businesses matter as much as rallies, providing local feedback that can shape the 2023–2027 Roadmap to Sustainable Development.
With 100 days to the governorship election, HE Seyi Makinde discusses fuel scarcity and Nigeria’s subsidy regime, draws lessons from Akinwumi Adesina’s use of technology to reform fertiliser subsidies, and links leadership choices to Oyo State’s agricultural interventions and Omituntun 2.0.
HE Seyi Makinde recounts an emotional visit from retired civil servant Madam Okunlola Eunice Olaninhun, who returned 1% of her newly paid gratuity in gratitude, and reflects on how the encounter reaffirmed his decision to leave the private sector for public service.
