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Human Rights Community names Oyebanji 2024 Governor of the Year

The statement signed by the group regional coordinators, Taiwo Adeleye, Kudu Abubakar, (North), Digifa Werenipre (South South) and Fred Ojinika (South East) singled out Oyebanji as a potential leader of Nigeria at the highest level.

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January 9, 2025
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A coalition of human rights and community based organisations spread across Nigeria has named the Ekiti State Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji as the Governor of the Year 2024

In a release signed after it’s General Congress meeting held in Lagos, the Nigerian Human Rights Community, (NIHRCO) said the process for the selection of the best Governor of the year 2024 began last year with various suggestions made by leaders of the coalition whose groups are spread across the country. The statement signed by the group regional coordinators, Taiwo Adeleye, Kudu Abubakar, (North), Digifa Werenipre (South South) and Fred Ojinika (South East) singled out Oyebanji as a potential leader of Nigeria at the highest level. The Governor, the group said will be presented with a Plaque on behalf of the 130 civil society and community based groups across the 36 states, with the hope that it would encourage other state Governors to address the fears and aspirations of the people they govern.

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The group said Ekiti remains the most politically stable and peaceful state all through 2024 adding that the Governor has been able to build bridges that unites all political factions and interests by defining the Lowest Common Factor that has sustained mutual co-existence in the state. The coalition established in 2003, and made up of 130 civil society and community based groups across the 36 states said the Governor of Ekiti stood out in the year 2024 in the area of transparency, promotion of human dignity, civil rights, peace building and sustainable development. The coalition said his special welfare provisions for People with Disability, PWD inspires a paradigm shift from agelong state actors’ perception of vulnerable communities.

During the Year, Oyebanji built the first PWD thereuperic centre in Nigeria lifting over 300 people with disability in Ekiti State from stupor, despair and melancholy.

The centre was equipped with Therapy jungle gym, Calming tents, Hammock, Balance beams, TENS machines, Bikes, Calming swings, Body sock and educational equipment. Other fittings were fully ramped Swing up bars and hand rails in the rest rooms.

The coalition said Oyebanji supported the PWDs with over 200 assisting devices, including wheelchairs, white canes, among others marking the 2024 International Day of People Living with Disabilities in a remarkable way the stirred the conscience of humanity. The coalition said it is significant that in the year 2024, Ekiti emerged as the best-performing state in the area of good governance, people-driven initiatives, transparency and accountability.

The State was singled out in excellent management and utilisation of public funds and excellent implementation of public policies as detailed in the Subnational Audit Efficacy (SAE) Index conducted by Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI), a non-state actor known for its work on monitoring public accountability.

The SAE assesses the level of transparency and accountability operational in the management and utilisation of public funds and implementation of public policies across all 36 states of the federation through public audit and key in the year 2024, the World University Rankings by Times Higher Education listed Ekiti State University as one of the top 20 in Nigeria out of over 250 higher institutions bringing the state into National and global reckoning.

It noted that in the year 2024, Ekiti State won an Award of Excellence as the best

performing state in Nigeria on Disease Surveillance at the 4th Annual Disease Surveillance Meeting of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) held in Abuja. The Government has drastically reduced communicable diseases and infant mortality rate through aggressive primary health care.

It noted that the Government of Ekiti also spent N1.5 billion allocated for the expansion and rehabilitation of 177 primary healthcare centres to enhance healthcare delivery.

Ekiti under Oyebanji has improved electricity supply and construction of access roads to boost industrial development in Ekiti State His efforts have been complimented by his wife, Dr Olayemi Oyebanji

Apart from the 50 pupils she awarded scholarships from primary to University,

through her pet project, the Widows, Aged, and Orphans Hope (WAOH) Support Foundation, she has left landmarks through assistance to over 400 widows and orphans. “She supported over 300 widows and orphans with exceptional empowerment” taking up the responsibility of addressing the fears of vulnerable communities as the focal point of her office.

 

 

 

 

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Taiwo Adeleye Director of Publicity

Kudu Abubakar (North)

Digifa Werenipre (South South)

Fred Ojinika (South East)

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