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Afe Babalola tasks newly-elected Ekiti lawmakers on infrastructure development

By Ayodele Afolabi, Ado-Ekiti
21 March 2023   |   3:39 am
A legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has charged newly-elected senators and members of the House of Representatives from Ekiti State to use their new status to attract development to the state, using necessary connections and lobbying processes.

Afe Babalola

• Says ABUAD will establish health centres in remote areas
• Oyebanji reiterates commitment to Ekiti development

A legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has charged newly-elected senators and members of the House of Representatives from Ekiti State to use their new status to attract development to the state, using necessary connections and lobbying processes.

Babalola, who gave the charge in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, when the state governor, Biodun Oyebanji, led the three senators-elect and six House of Representatives members-elect to him, urged all influential Ekiti indigenes at home and in the Diaspora to start paying their taxes and development levies to the state in the drive to ensure aggressive development.

He said that ABUAD Multi-Systems Hospital is at the verge of taking healthcare delivery close to the people by establishing ABUAD health centres in remote areas of the state to help the people with critical health challenges that may not be able to visit the main hospital.

The legal icon appealed to all Ekiti people, irrespective of political affiliation, to join hands with the Governor Oyebanji to enable him drive development of the state.

Babalola also urged local council administrators to embark on aggressive food production by investing massively in agricultural implements and inputs to make the state the food basket of the nation.

In his remarks, Oyebanji, who reiterated his commitment to Ekiti State development, noted that Babalola was more passionate about Ekiti project.

The governor said he led the newly-elected lawmakers to the nonagenarian to share his vision for Ekiti as well as give them assignments on Ekiti project.

He added that his government would partner with ABUAD by sharing its vision of industrialisation, saying that if the institution could achieve remarkable feats in the 13 years of its existence, then sharing vision with it would be a plus for the state.

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