Makinde: Making of a strategist | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

At the Eagle Square, Abuja in the early hours of Sunday, October 31, Governor Seyi Makinde had just delivered his candidate, Amb. Taofeek Arapaja as the Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party . From the ranks of his supporters, somebody hailed – The master strategist! The governor gave him thumbs up and the general backslapping continued.

Whether his amicable nature generally contributed to the lightning-speed penetration of his Omituntun mantra across the length of Oyo State ahead of the 2019 election is something political analysts and theorists are yet to fully calibrate, but it is becoming certain that some natural affinities that are considered as off-cuts by some contenders have become firm parts of the robust stratagem that delivers the goods to GSM, battle after battle.

From the inauguration podium at the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, he launched salvos at the troubles that beleaguer the education sector by declaring free and qualitative education, canceling levies and announcing the implementation of the Roadmap to Accelerated Development of Oyo State, 2019-2023, which encapsulates the four-point service agenda, to wit, Security, Health, Education and Economic expansion through agribusiness value chain.

That’s not the way of the Makinde government. The old habit would fight the new but with the persistence of the new environment commissioner, Okunrinjeje Abiodun Oni, the huge mountains of refuse are being subdued. Having enhanced the ease of doing business and promoted the state’s comparative advantage in agriculture, agribusiness and solid minerals, it did not come as a surprise that the state’s Internally Generated Revenue has been on the rise. It rose as much as 26 per cent in the heat of the Covid-19 pandemic and 42 per cent year-on-year at the end of year 2020.

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