Oyo guber: NUJ Congratulates Makinde... Describes Victory as Well Deserved

The Oyo State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has congratulated Governor Seyi Makinde on his re-election as the governor of the state.

The NUJ chairman, Ademola Babalola who described Governor Makinde' victory as well-earned and well-deserved, charged him to use the medium to further the development of the state and the welfare of its people under his watch.

In a statement signed by the chairman,

Babalola noted that the spread of the various developments projects embarked upon by Makinde in his first term made him the darling of the people of the state who have seen in him a compassionate and just administrator.

“The signs had been so visible that Saturday’s guber election would be a walkover for Governor Makinde, having endeared himself to the common people by showing to them that he is a compassionate administrator.

“The governor’s good deeds were also trumpeted by the workers and particularly pensioners many of whom trekked distances to their polling units to vote for the man who has returned smile to their faces.

“Hitherto neglected zones are getting their deserved attention through road and other infrastructural projects connecting the zones and making the movement of agric produce from the production to the consumption centres possible,” the statement said.

Babalola, however, tasked Makinde to be magnanimous in victory by engaging competent people from across the state, irrespective of political leanings in his government.

The NUJ chairman commended the two leading opposition candidates, Senator Teslim Folarin of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Oloye Adebayo Adelabu of Accord for congratulating Makinde.