Arrangement are in top gear for the confernent of a special recognition award on the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde and his wife, Mrs Tamunominini Makinde, by a non-governmental organisation, Political Searchlight.
The Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the Governance Searchlight, Otunba Tokunbo Babs-Olurinde, in a release signed by the Publicity Secretary of the organization, Cornelius Kayode, maintained that following a close monitoring of the first 100 days of first-term governors in the South-West, the organisation found Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State so outstanding.
According to her ” without any iota of doubt, following our research and close monitoring, members of the governance searchlight found His Excellency, Engineer Seyi Makinde, the Governor of Oyo State, very outstanding among his peers in the entire South West and unique in his approach to governance and exemplary style of leadership that, we cannot but recognize”, she said.
She maintained that apart from the aforementioned, the governor had even excelled in the area of security, health, education, expansion of the economy, welfare of workers, reconstruction, rehabilitation and renovation of schools through SUBEB and Ministry of Education among others..
Olurinde said the feat performed within a short period of time of only 100 days at the helms of affair of the pace setter state showed clearly that the governor actually is a man of the people who doesn’t only listen to the plight of the people but naturally have a large heart and care for the welfare, a feat if adhered to would take Oyo State to the next level
She affirmed that the organization are proud to associate and identify with the style of leadership of the action governor, hence the special recognition. award, “Beacon of Hope for a Greater Nigeria”, scheduled to be conferred on him and his wife before the Independence day celebration.