Speeches

REMARKS AT THE FLAG-OFF OF THE TWENTY-ONE-KILOMETRE AIRPORT – AJIA – NEW IFE EXPRESS ROAD WITH A SPUR TO AMULOKO

And this is how economies work: Investors will only go where they can be assured of profits. If we do not develop basic infrastructure like roads, it will affect the cost of production, which in turn means less profit for investors. So, we cannot be seriously discussing attracting investment into Oyo State when a majority of roads and other infrastructure are in a state of disrepair

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A SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE AKINTUNDE ADEOSUN FOUNDATION ANNUAL LEADERSHIP COLLOQUIUM TITLED: ‘INTEGRITY – A SINE QUA NON TO BUILDING A PROSPEROUS NATION

Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. When a leader is honest, it means that they can be trusted. You can go to sleep and shut both eyes because if they have said they will do something, they will do it. If they have made promises as shown in their manifesto, they will not wake up one day and deny it. A leader with strong moral principles is a person of his word.

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Remarks at the Signing of the Oyo State Revised Budget 2020

As I sign this revised budget, it is a good time to reflect on one issue that has plagued our budget implementation over the years—the issue of poor budget performance. We make robust presentations of plans that mostly end on paper because the funds are not available to implement them. When you have an annual budget performance of about 30%, you will understand why we keep having stagnation in economic growth. Or how else will you explain an IGR average of about N1.8 billion in the past four years?

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Speech at the First Anniversary of the PDP Southwest (UK) Chapter

Our elders say when a woman marries two husbands, she is in the best position to tell which of the two have given her a better bargain. Nigerians in the southwest have had an opportunity to compare years of rule by the two major parties and a few smaller ones. When you feel their pulse, you will see that they are now gearing towards choosing people and not parties. This is the opportunity that we now have before us. An opportunity to show that the PDP, as it is now, has an ideology backing it.

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