LG Polls: “Go out and vote for the right person ” – Makinde.

Oyo state governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has charged the electorate to go out en masse and vote for their preferred and choice leaders at the grassroots level.

Makinde said: “Let me use this opportunity to say that the local government election is barely three weeks away. I want to say to our people that, please election is not a do-or-die thing. It is whosoever the people want that they will choose.

“When people go out and accuse us of insincerity, these are people who didn’t conduct an election for almost eight years. This is the second local government election that we are organising under this administration.

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“Let us intensify our campaign. This administration is all about the interest of the people. And the people know the difference between federal, state and local elections.

“They should keep quiet and with what they cannot do, if they can’t praise us, they should keep quiet. Nobody has stopped anyone from going out to campaign. The political landscape in Oyo state is very calm. We know how things used to be even for internal elections.

“We have come together to put the interest of the state over and above all other interests be it personal or group.

” I want to seize this opportunity to thank all residents for their religious tolerance. When people say we are achieving progress, it’s because we have peace in the state and I want us to maintain it.

“And for us as an administration, I know that I have said we will soon begin to roll out appointments for deserving people. We are working on it. In the days ahead we will do it. The appointments are there.

“And for those who may want to criticise us on our appointments, this has been the leanest administration in the history of Oyo State. You may check the data. After our re-elections, before we started giving appointments, and after we had sacked all appointees, I was surprised that our wage bill didn’t make any difference.

“For the first four years, we moved our wage bill from about N4.8billion monthly to about N8.3billion (including wage award). But the political appointees in it is not up to N100 million. When people say it is politicians that feed fat on public funds, the percentage we politicians get from our wage bill is what I just told you.

“We will continue to run a responsible administration. For those to be appointed, we can accommodate them. And it won’t damage the system that we have put in place.”