The newly sworn-in council Chairman of Ekiti local government area of Kwara State, Comrade Yinka Dallas has promised a complete turnaround of the LG under his stewardship.
Dallas made this disclosure at his official inaugural address at the local government secretariat, in Osi, stressing that with a meticulous implementation of his blueprint tagged ‘5 point broad Agenda’s, the fortune of the council will turn around for the better.
The speech themed ‘Towards Building a Prosperous Future’, he promised to address the issue of security, agriculture, education, health and sport, stressing that with these 5 broad sectors, the narrative of the council will not be the same again.
He however solicited the support of all stakeholders especially the opposition towards actualising this plans.
The speech reads in parts: “The council under my leadership will not operate on the basis of partisanship, the task ahead is onerous, it requires the collaboration of all and sundry, the political parties (APC and opposition parties especially the PDP), organised labour with special preference for NULGE, whose members’ll be the drivers of our programmes and policies, the traditional institution, religious authorities, market associations, Youth and Students groups among other important stakeholders will all be needed towards bringing to reality our vision for this Local government.
“It is an over-flogged reality that the local government system in Nigeria as presently constituted, is almost comatose, elementary responsibilities like salary payment is now a hard nut to crack by LG administrators, revenue accruable to LGs from the federation account is not enough to even pay salaries talkless of embarking on some other necessary projects especially infrastructural facelift, which is badly required in an agrarian local government like ours. With this sad reality, the only way out is for us all to work with unity of purpose, eschew and move away from our fault lines, downplay our divides and pull resources together towards bringing about the prosperous LG of our dreams.
“It’ll be foolhardy for me to claim to know it all, I can’t in all sincerity claim to have the monopoly of repository of ideas which is required to change the tide of our LG and that is why we all must come together by pulling resources (human, natural and liquid) in a pool, towards assuring a prosperous future for ourselves and the generations to come. All hands must be on deck across political lines, if this must be achieved and that’s why we can’t afford to work at cross purposes, if all we truly care about is serving our people”.
