Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola
Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has said his government is banking on its potential in agriculture to transform the state.
He said developing the agricultural potential of the state would bring it into prosperity and liberate it from the leaque of states that over depend on the federal subvention to run their economy.
Aregbesola stated these on Sunday while speaking on diverse national issues in Osogbo.
He said, “We are developing agriculture in Osun State with the aim of making food available and cheap to the people. We also target 10 per cent of the daily food supply value to Lagos State in a bid to generate money for our state.
“Lagos has a daily food exchange value of about N3.5bn. That is the daily value of food commodity that exchanges hands in Lagos on a daily basis. If the South-West states take 10 per cent each; that is 50 per cent altogether. The remaining can be left for other states to supply.”
He said his administration was determined to reverse the trend in which state governments looked up to the Federal Government for survival.
He said Osun State was making plans to have designated points in Lagos where its food products would be sold to Lagosians at reduced prices. He added that his administration had already embarked on revamping elementary education by building structures worth N50bn and road construction projects across the state.
Meanwhile, Aregbesola, has lamented the looting of N1.7tn from the country’s fuel subsidy management fund.
The governor spoke through his Special Adviser on Environment, Mr. Bola Ilori, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Sunday.
He said the future of Nigerian youths was being mortgaged through the large scale looting of federal resources.
Also, Aregbesola says the state is peaceful, blaming political adversaries for trying to cause chaos in it.
He said if not for the intervention of God and the support of the people, the state would have been disrupted by his foes.
In a statement on Sunday, Aregbesola was quoted as saying this when the League of Imams and Alfas, South-West, Edo and Delta, led by its President-General, Sheikh Mustapha Ajisafe, paid him a courtesy visit on Sunday in Osogbo, the state capital.
He described the clerics’ visit as an affirmation of the support and confidence the people still reposed in his government, noting that the Christian Association of Nigerian, in the state had earlier paid a similar visit to him to reaffirm its support for the government.
Aregbesola said, “Your visit has once more confirmed to the whole world that there is no tension in Osun State. During the week, American delegates and the Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, visited the state, which is an indication that the state is peaceful.”
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