The Vice President said the
President was committed to the development of all the states of the federation
irrespective of the political party in charge of the states.
Osinbajo said this while
addressing traditional rulers from Ekiti State at the palace of the Ewi of
Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, and was contained in a statement by his Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande
He noted that this is why Ekiti
State had been benefiting from the Federal Government’s Social Investment
Programme despite being a Peoples Democratic Party state.
He cited the N-Power programme
under which he said 3,339 young graduates from Ekiti State had been employed.
The VP explained that the
beneficiaries had been assisting the state as teachers, extension workers and
health workers.
Osinbajo disclosed that
additional 8,600 graduates had been pre-selected and would be engaged at the
end of this month, therefore bringing the number of beneficiaries in the state
to 11,000.
He added that 10,664
beneficiaries from the state had also received micro-credit from the Federal
Government of Nigeria under the SIP.
Another 10,688 people, he said,
were benefiting from the Conditional Cash Transfers in the state by receiving a
monthly benefit of N5,000.
He said, “These have been done,
as I said, because the President’s view is that we must not play politics with
the health and welfare and prosperity of our people. No politicking.
“That is why despite the fact
that this is not an APC state, all of these benefits have been given to these
people, the indigenes of this state because they are Nigerians,” he said.
Osinbajo further expressed the
belief that if the candidate of the APC, Kayode Fayemi, was elected, the state
governor in the July 14 governorship election, the state would be better for
it.
He said the country needed
devoted and serious-minded people to be in the saddle.
“I want to say that nothing comes
easy; you need people who are devoted, people who are serious-minded, dedicated
to the work of improvement and development. That is what our country needs
today.”
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