Abiodun Approves Constituency Projects for 236 Councilors of the State’s 20 Local Governments
Governor Dapo Abiodun has approved constituency projects for 236 councilors of the state’s 20 local governments.
The approval of the projects was a follow-up to the full payment of furniture allowances to the councilors.
The Governor announced the approval of the constituency projects while receiving at the governor’s office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, and members of the Ogun State Forum of Councilors.
He told them that his approval of the constituency projects was to fulfill the promise to execute projects in their constituencies, as the closest to the people at the grassroots.
He asked the councilors to continue to be good ambassadors of the APC at the various wards across the state.
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The councilors passed a vote of confidence on his administration and thanked him for fulfilling his earlier promise to pay the full their full furniture allowances.
Chairman of the councilor’s forum, Honorable Olanrewaju Adeleye, thanked the governor for executing at least a project in each of the state’s 234 wards, while not abandoning the inherited projects.
I am a promise-keeping Governor. Whatever promise I make to you, I will keep it. I want to thank you for your very kind remarks and for appreciating that I promised you I was going to pay your furniture allowances, and I remain the first governor who will pay furniture allowances to councilors 100%.
I also promised that I was going to ensure you are sufficiently empowered. You are politicians.
You must be empowered to continue to empower your various constituencies and I think I am trying, he said.
Earlier in his remarks, the Chairman, of Ogun State Forum of Councillors, Olarenwaju Adeleye, thanked the governor for approving and paying in full their furniture allowances.
Adeleye also acknowledged Abiodun for executing at least a project in each of the 236 wards of the state and commended him for not abandoning projects left unfinished by the immediate past administrations in the state.
