WELCOME ADDRESS BY THE EKITI STATE GOVERNOR, MR AYODELE FAYOSE AT THE QUATERLY MEETING OF THE SOUTHWEST GOVERNORS’ECONOMIC FORUM HELD AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ADO EKITI ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017

WELCOME ADDRESS BY THE EKITI STATE GOVERNOR, MR AYODELE FAYOSE AT THE QUATERLY MEETING OF THE SOUTHWEST GOVERNORS’ECONOMIC FORUM HELD AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ADO EKITI ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017

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I welcome you specially, to this very important meeting, which is aimed at fostering unity and development in the Southwest States.

Particularly, I appreciate my brother governors for this visit, which to me and the people of Ekiti, is historic. It is historic because the meeting is holding in my state, not minding that the last meeting was my first attendance. I appreciate you.
I also acknowledge our collective patriotism in fostering unity and development in the Southwest States. No doubt, your sincerity at the last meeting held in Ibadan, Oyo State won me over and I am now more than ever before, committed to the integration and collaboration of the Southwest States.

Most importantly, it is not our own making that we are brothers from the same zone, and if we are serious about developing this zone, we have no option than to be our brothers’ keeper.

Therefore, to move the Southwest zone forward, we must respect the political beliefs and opinions of others and we must not do anything that will undermine one another.

To me, national politics should add value to us, and not divide us.

Americans go about fighting their political battles without undermining the collective interests of their country, and that is the kind of spirit with which we must operate if the Yoruba nation must regain its pride of place in the Nigeria nation.

We must constantly ask ourselves; where is the Southwest in the scheme of things in Nigeria?

This gathering must however not be about talk, talk and talk all the time. There must be affirmative actions; else, we will lose the confidence repose in us by our people. We must take decisions on what to do that will make the difference in the lives of our people in the immediate.

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