Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, yesterday said that his defeat in the April 26 governorship election would not stop him from continuing with the good work he is doing for the state.
The outgoing governor had christened his campaign: “Ise rere o duro” (The good work continues).
The Director-General of his campaign organization, Chief Ademola Ojo, disclosed this at the inauguration of a vocational training workshop on Waste to Wealth as a means of tackling poverty being embarked upon by the outgoing government
The project is being undertaken by the Association of Local Government Chairmen (ALGON) and the state Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
Ojo is also ALGON chairman in Oyo State.
The three-day training programme will see a minimum of 750 youth from each of the 33 Local Government Areas of the state trained in converting wastes from agriculture products to gum, adhesive and glue. Trainers are to be engaged from the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO).
Apart from empowering unemployed youth in the state, the vocational programme is also intended to reduce filth and waste materials in the environment.
Ojo, who is also the ALGON Chairman in the state, maintained that the training programme which is coming up barely three weeks to the end of the tenure of the present administration “is another manifestation of Governor Alao-Akala’s commitment to youth empowerment and poverty alleviation aimed at making the beneficiaries self-employed and self-reliant.”
He declared, “We have left everything to the hands of God as our principal, Governor Alao-Akala believes that the good programmes he had started must outlive him. And this seminar which is designed in a manner to empower the beneficiaries is aimed at lifting the spirit of the mass followers.”
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