By OLA AJAYI
IBADAN- Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Sunday, said the task of restoring, reforming and repositioning the state was a battle that must be won.

The governor who spoke at the end of a three-day retreat organised for all political appointees in the state, urged them  to key into his vision of transforming and repositioning the state.

Chief Kola Daisi, a business tycoon, earlier at a dinner, lamented the level of decay in the State, stating that it was imperative for Ajimobi’s government to embark on a restoration agenda for the state.

Daisi said no sooner than Ajimobi took over government did some of the inherited challenges rear their ugly heads like the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, lawlessness  and the landmine of agitation for minimum wage by the state workers.

He, however, believed that with the sagacity that God had endowed the governor with coupled with the quality of the political appointees, those developmental issues would be a thing of the past.

At the retreat, Profesor Alex Gboyega, renowned Public Administration scholar, spoke on “Meaning, Purpose and Dimensions of Governance Under Democracy” while Prof. Ademola Ariyo and Dr. Abiodun Folawewo, both of the Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, delved extensively on “Planning and Budgeting for Effective Transformation of Oyo State”.

Besides, all the commissioners in the state were made to submit their respective four-year action plan while key performance indices which would help in sharpening the focus of their ministries were handed over to them by the participants at the retreat.