The governor of Kwara state, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has disclosed that he will leave Kwara state better than he met it at the end of his second tenure by 2027, News About Nigeria reports.
The governor, through his commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Bola Olukoju, made this known at a joint press conference in Illorin recently.
According to Olukoju, the projects proposed by the governor for the betterment of Kwara state, are decisions taken at the state executive council meeting with the approval of the governor and other commissioners, including the commissioner for health, Dr. Amina El Imam, commissioner for Business Innovation and Technology, Mrs. Damilola Yusuf Adelodun and the supervising commissioner for works, Abdulquwwiy Olododo.
The governor, who still has a little over three years before he completes his second term, noted that he was committed to seeing that the lives of both indigenous people and residents of Kwara State were bettered.
Some of the projects proposed by the governor include another flyover at the popular Unity road in Ilorin, reconstruction of Kwara hotels to Five Star hotel and construction of 294 km of roads across Kwara North and South of which an initial N40b has been paid to contractors, among others.
Another important project, according to the governor, is the conversion of the general hospital in Ilorin to a teaching hospital for Kwara State University, which, he noted, will support the training of medical students and related professionals.
According to the commissioner for health, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq had earlier qualified General Hospital Ilorin as a postgraduate training health institution and also approved an additional N906.7 million seed fund to push through the historic transition.
