Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde yesterday reaffirmed his admiration for teachers and the teaching profession, noting that his administration will continue to do everything possible to ensure teachers and other workers are satisfied on the job.
The governor, who said the government would pay the teachers annual leave bonus for 2022 by the end of February, added that the welfare of workers would continue to be paramount to his government.
The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, on behalf of the Media Committee of the Governor’s Campaign Council, made this known yesterday in a statement when he met the representatives of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Itesiwaju Local Government chapter in Otu.
The governor told residents of the council at separate meetings with the leadership of religious faiths and the traditional council that his administration would explore tourism and solid mineral development, to expand the state’s economy under Omititun 2.0.
Speaking with the traditional rulers at the Itesiwaju Local Government Hall, Otu, Governor Makinde said he was seeking to be re-elected to consolidate the gains under Omituntun 1.0, which were recorded in the last 44 months.
He equally met with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) at First Baptist Church, Otu; the League of Imams and Alfa at the Central Mosque, Otu as well as the traditional worshippers, urging them to support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidates in the National Assembly, state Assembly and governorship elections.
While campaigning at separate meetings with traditional worshippers, commercial motorcycle riders’ associations and non-indigenes of the council, the governor said his administration had delivered on its 2019 campaign promises.
He said everything his administration had been able to achieve under Omituntun 1.0 would be consolidated under Omituntun 2.0, warning residents not to allow opposition political parties, whom he said had nothing to campaign with, to deceive them ahead of the coming elections.
In his remarks during the traditional council’s meeting with the governor and his entourage, the Eleyinpo of Ipapo, Oba Yekeen Ademola, as well as representatives of each group met by the governor, hailed his administration’s achievements in the last 44 months.
They promised to work for the success of his second term bid.