Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has said that, the policies of his Government in the last two years were geared towards achieving a paradigm shift from governance and operatives of Government who dwelled extensively on what they could derive from government, rather than what they can offer the State.
He made this known at the end of a 3-day mid-term performance retreat for commissioners, Special Advisers and Senior Special Assistants of the Government held at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan.
While addressing the political appointees, the Governor said that gone were the days when the quality of political office holders contributed to the typecast of the State as backward, maintaining that in the last two years, the Government had succeeded in attracting quality and dedicated appointees.
At the retreat, all the appointees were asked to render their stewardship through power point presentations which were thereafter subjected to a rigorous critique by the members present.
Governor Ajimobi, who said that the purpose of the retreat was to do a self-assessment of his Government before communicating same to the people, maintained that the qualitative and quantitative assessments done during the retreat had shown that no Government, in the history of the State, had done so much in so short a time.
"The purpose of this retreat was to do a self-appraisal as it is done in all forward-looking human endeavours. And we needed to be scientific, so that we could have a statistical appraisal of what previous Governments had done in all sectors of the state's economy and what we have done in the last two years. The comparative analyses we have done in the last three days have shown that we are on the right course and our people have not made a mistake in putting us here," the Governor said.
While urging the appointees not to rest on their oars, the Governor said his resolve was for the administration to make a monumental difference in the administration of the State, expressing his happiness that in the last two years, his Government had established a concrete foundation that is unprecedented in the State.
Some of the political appointees spoken to commended the mid-term performance review retreat, stating that it succeeded in putting them on their toes to perform optimally for the benefit of the people of the State.
Via: Oyo State Government - Official Press Release