A Non-Governmental Organisation, has commenced plans to organise an economic summit where stakeholders from different parts of Osun State and nationwide would share ideas on how to safeguard the achievements and set agenda for future improvement.

Tagged “Orisun Aje 2014”, the two-day summit would hold in Osogbo, the state capital, between April 29 and 30 with the theme: “Crux of Osun’s Developmental Master plan:  Analysing a radical economic Paradigm Shift.”

According to Mr Biodun Agboola, director-general of the Peoples Welfare League, which is at the forefront of the summit idea, the summit is expected to capture and expose to the world the new potentials and opportunities now opening up in the state as a result of the developmental and transformational strides the state has taken in the past four years of the incumbent administration.

“Osun has been transformed from a backwater, agrarian state into one of Nigeria’s largest and most vibrant economies through a masterful plan that combines prudence, strategic focus and mass talent mobilisation. The latest testament to this fact is the Renaissance Capital’s recent description of Osun as Nigeria’s 7th largest economy even though the state is 33rd on the revenue allocation table. “The National Bureau of Statistics has also rated Osun favourably in key areas such as per capital income, employment generation and infrastructure development, among others.”

The past four years have seen  Osun State transform into a land of increasing opportunities and investment destination with attendant impacts on overall socio-economic vibrancy.”

Comrade Agboola noted that as the state enters the phase of electing a new chief executive in the approaching August 9 Gubernatorial election, the need to showcase the level of transformation witnessed so far under the Aregbesola administration as benchmark for future rating of whoever will mount the saddle next cannot be over-emphasised.

“Since the administration of Colonel Leo Ajiborisa, our organization has always been on ground to critique the annual budgets and performances of each administration with a view to establishing how people- driven and development-centered these are. What Osun has witnessed in the last four years marked a total paradigm shift and a new benchmark which must be properly showcased to the whole world”, he explained.


Source: Sun