Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, took time off from a packed campaign programme to speak with senior editors from The Nation.
WHY should Oyo State voters reelect you for another four years?
I think first and foremost, when I came, I promised that I will do everything possible to improve the living standard of our people and to improve on the
services that governance provides for people.Government is strictly to provide services to the people. The establishment of government was based on the provision of healthcare, provision of good road, provision of infrastructure. I promised that
those services would be provided to the people.Having now been elected; when you look at the record of our performance; when you look at the key
performance indicators that you use to measure good governance, I believe that using our own period of 2011 to 2015, we have done a lot better than either of the two previous administration of 2003 2007;2007 to 2011. And we have used those key
performance indicators to measure and compare ourselves with them. We intend to come back to complete those good works that we have started. Not
only that, we intend to bring in new projects that will help in improving the lives or our people.
What you have said is fine, but to get there, you need to deal with the politics. There is this myth that in Oyo State governors don’t get to do a second term.How do you hope to break this jinx?
First of all, there is no jinx. But even if there is, there is always a first time. This will be the first that it will be broken, and I will be the first person to break it.It’s also the first time a governor will be doing so much comparatively speaking. I’m the first governor of a civilian administration to construct a flyover. It had never been done prior to our administration. I’m
the first governor that provided free bus transport to work
