Governors reiterate S/West integration, commission office South-West governors, on Wednesday, reiterated their commitment to regional integration for all round development of the region. The governors of Osun, Lagos, Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti states spoke through their Oyo State counterpart, Abiola Ajimobi, after the inauguration the Dawn Commission at its Cocoa House office, Dugbe, Ibadan. Ajimobi, flanked by Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and Ibikunle Amosun, said, “we have reiterated our commitment to regional integration platformed on social services, commerce, health, agriculture, infrastructural development and security. “What we have done today is first of all the inauguration of the Dawn Commission office. We are having sub-committees that would go deeper into all the areas of development. “In the end, our objective is to turn our region to an hub for development in terms of being the first area of call for investors visiting Nigeria.” The Director-General, Dawn Commission, Dipo Famakinwa, said, “what the governors have done today is to inaugurate the Dawn Commission, which would midwife the process of ensuring that the regional integration agenda of the South-West states begins to get attraction. “You will begin to see a lot more activities on the regional integration agenda. The governors have made a formal declaration on the commencement of the process of integration. We will now begin to see development along the line.” Explaining that all the governors in the South West, including Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, were expected at the meeting, he said, “all the governors in the South West belong to the council of the Dawn Commission. “All the governors were invited but you can’t really say why a particular governor was absent. Some of those who came must have made a lot of sacrifices. We expect that the Ondo State governor would be there at the next meeting slated for August. “I don’t want us to look at it as a Yoruba thing, but as a development taking place in the Western part of Nigeria because we need the strength of everybody. The development of our states is not going to be by the Yoruba alone. “Primarily, the Yoruba people inhabit the place called western Nigeria but we are trying to annex the strength and capability of everybody, including foreign investors to enjoy the development framework that we put together.” “Also, we want to build regional co-operation on cultural development, education, health, rail transportation, governance and institution, security and all facets of development that are critical to the region”. At the end of the meeting, Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi conducted his Osun and Ekiti State counterparts; Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Dr Kayode Fayemi round project sites in Ibadan.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:49:12 +0000
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