The outgoing governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has said that challenges in the national economy affected his eight years of his administration.
Governor Ahmed of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recently lost to Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections.
Speaking during inauguration of a 24-member transition implementation committee on hand-over of power to a newly elected government in the state on Tuesday, the outgoing governor, however, said that his administration was leaving the state better than it met it.
“As you are aware, most of the eight years of our administration were marked by challenges in the national economy. Nevertheless, we leveraged our resourcefulness to modestly fulfil our pledge to uplift our people and our state while laying a solid foundation for its current and future sustenance.
Indeed, I make bold to state that we are leaving Kwara State better than we met it as we are bequeathing to it a legacy of service, peace and good governance” he said.
The governor, who said that importance of the exercise was to aid the incoming government to settle down to governance quickly, implored residents of the state to extend similar hands of cooperation and support given to his administration to the incoming government, “so that Kwara can continue to toe the path of continuous development and progress”.
He listed Terms of Reference (ToR) of the Transition Implementation Committee to include:
• putting in place all necessary machinery for the smooth take-off of the in-coming Administration;
• ensure full liaison with all officially assigned representatives of the incoming Administration for the appropriate briefing on the activities of Government towards providing a solid footing for the new Government;
• any other matter the Committee may find worthy for the effective discharge of its mandate.
He charged members of the committee to bring to bear qualities that recommended their appointment in the discharge of their responsibilities.
“While I am confident that you will perform creditably, therefore, implore you to justify the confidence reposed in you by Government and the good people of Kwara State”, he said
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