BY GBENGA OLARINOYE
OSOGBO— GOVERNOR Rauf Aresgbesola of Osun State, Tuesday said the state would require about two hundred billion naira, to fix all the decaying infrastructures in the State.

Aregbesola at maiden meeting with journalists in the state, noted that apart from the four-year tenure of Chief Bisi Akande, not much was achieved by the past leaders in the area of social, economic and physical development of the state.

He said since assuming office in November last year, he realised the level of decay in infrastructure and had been able to save about thirty billion Naira for this purpose.

He said: “For us, to be able to fix Osun State properly in terms of infrastructural development that will enhance our internal revenue generation, we require about N200 billion and I believe we can raise the fund through other means to develop our state”

On the spate of criticisms of his style of administration by the main opposition party in the state, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Governor Aregbesola declared that no amount of undue criticism by his detractors would stop him from fulfilling his mandate to the people of the state.

According to him, his administration had embarked on several programmes to rejuvenate the economy of the state.