S-West govs converge on Lagos today

Posted by admin Governors, South-West Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

LAGOS — A one-day meeting of the six governors of the South West region will hold in Lagos today.

Usually reliable sources said the close-door meeting to be hosted by Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State will be attended by his Action Congress of Nigeria’s counterparts from Osun (Engr. Rauf Aregbesola), Ogun (Senator Ibikunle Amosu), Oyo (Senator Abiola Ajimobi) and Ekiti (Dr Kayode Fayemi). Also expected is their Labour Party equivalent from Ondo State, Dr Segun Mimiko.

According to sources, “the meeting is imperative since all the states in the South-West are under the ACN, with the exception of Ondo State which is under a Labour Party government that may also be considered “progressive” (and which actually took power from the Peoples Democratic Party with some support from the ACN leadership).

“There is also a widespread expectation within the region that the party and its governors will cooperate to spread the type of development witnessed in Lagos State across the entire South-West.”

Also, the region’s chief executives will look at the possibility of establishing an investment outfit to be fashioned after the Oodua group.

Vanguard also reliably gathered that there will be a common action pattern to be agreed upon at the meeting on how states like Oyo and Ogun will handle ‘the rot’ left by previous administrations.

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