Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, was on Monday sworn-in for a second term in office on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Speaking at the 45-minutes ceremony administered by the state Chief Judge, Justice Abiodun Adebara, at the Government House, Ilorin, the Governor vowed to remain responsible and responsive to the citizens within available resources.
Governor Abdulrazaq who is the current Chairman, Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, was sworn in alongside his Deputy, Mr Kayode Alabi.
He pledged that his second tenure would build on the gains of the last four years of his first tenure which he credited to the support of the people of the state.
Unfolding his priorities, Governor Abdulrazaq said, “The next four years will consolidate the gains of our first tenure and lay new foundations for sustained socioeconomic development and institutional growth.
We are going to deepen the reforms and investments in the critical sectors like education, healthcare delivery, civil service welfare, social safety programmes, general infrastructural upgrade and renewals, focused expansion of our economic base, and promotion of a political culture that advances self-reliance and growth.
“Our spending priorities will be to complete all the ongoing infrastructural projects and iron out the business models to deliver maximum benefits to the people. Adequate attention will be focused on completing projects like the Ilorin International Conference Centre, the Revenue House, Innovation Hub, Visual Arts Centre, Sugar Film Factory, Osi and Ilesha Baruba campuses of the Kwara State University, industrial park, Shea Butter factory in Kaiama, among others.
The General Tunde Idiagbon Flyover and the garment factory will be flagged off soon with huge economic benefits. The Ilorin Capital City Master Plan will be followed by a grander Kwara State Master Plan that will cover Kwara South and Kwara North for sustainable living.
“Affordable housing programme will be another priority of this dispensation. This will help civil servants and other citizens to own their own homes. It will also curb unplanned construction and support decent living conditions. In this wise, we will form partnerships with private and federal government agencies to develop new satellite towns already mapped out in the Ilorin City Master Plan as well as in GRA lands in parts of Kwara South and Kwara North,” he added.
