Following the Intra-African Trade Fair in Egypt and the Zik Lecture in Awka, HE Seyi Makinde reflects on national unity and strategic economic growth, while reporting progress towards a ₦500 billion subnational loan facility for the Rashidi Ladoja Circular Road and Ibadan Airport runway expansion.
Following an executive retreat, HE Seyi Makinde defends prioritising long-term investments over politically popular interventions, citing roads connecting Oke-Ogun and other zones to investment and announcing a shift towards reconstructing inner roads in Ibadan.
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.
As he completes most of his second-term cabinet and begins reading Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads, HE Seyi Makinde reflects on learning from history, while responding to the Olodo bridge collapse and signalling further measures to cushion the economic effects of fuel subsidy removal
HE Seyi Makinde provides updates on constituting his second-term cabinet and restoring streetlights, announces plans to power them ultimately through the 11MW Independent Power Project and separates Culture and Tourism from Information to sharpen Oyo State’s tourism drive.
HE Seyi Makinde announces an Oyo State investment summit in London focused on agribusiness, tourism, solid minerals and sustainable energy, as part of plans to attract investment and progressively double monthly IGR to ₦7.5 billion without raising taxes.
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.
HE Seyi Makinde unveils Omituntun 2.0 as his 2023 campaign slogan, promising an upgrade of his first-term agenda through expanded investment in agribusiness, tourism and solid minerals, stronger infrastructure and greater state support for development at local-government level.
HE Seyi Makinde reports progress on plans to rehabilitate 256 roads spanning 2,897 km, alongside implementation of Oyo State’s new solid-waste management system, before handing over to Deputy Governor Bayo Lawal as Acting Governor during his vacation.
