The governor mentioned his administration could be guided by self-discipline, integrity, wonderful service supply and pace, warning that he wouldn’t tolerate any appointee discovered wanting in these areas.
Speaking shortly after the swearing-in ceremony on the Osuntokun Pavilion, Government House, Ado-Ekiti, Oyebanji mentioned the appointments demonstrated his administration’s resolve to make sure that its second time period commenced directly.
He pressured {that a} second time period in workplace shouldn’t be a interval of complacency or self-indulgence however a possibility to deepen governance and ship on electoral guarantees.
Oyebanji urged the appointees to justify the boldness reposed in them by redoubling their efforts and delivering wonderful outcomes in their respective portfolios.
He additionally charged them to make sure that administrative processes and tasks undertaken by their respective ministries, departments and companies met the very best requirements of technical competence, transparency and professionalism whereas being executed with pace and in line with international greatest practices.
The governor mentioned, “Today’s event is a further demonstration of our resolve to ensure that this administration takes off quickly without any further delay and to prove a point that a second term in office is not for complacency or self-indulgence.
“That you have been recalled to continue your job is proof of my confidence in you and an affirmation of your performance. I will therefore like to counsel you to resist the temptation of invincibility and indispensability, which could ultimately bring arrogance. At the end of the day, only God is indispensable.
“I must make it unequivocally clear that I will be very impatient and completely intolerant of any kind of indiscipline, unethical behaviour and corruption. We must work very hard to successfully translate all our electoral promises into visible, concrete and life-changing outcomes for the citizens.”
Responding on behalf of the newly sworn-in cupboard members, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Dayo Apata (SAN), pledged his colleagues’ dedication to honesty, impartiality, transparency and laborious work in the discharge of their duties.
Apata described their appointments as a name to service, stressing that the swearing-in marked the start of their accountability to work intently with the federal government in implementing its growth agenda.
He mentioned the cupboard members have been acutely aware of Oyebanji’s want to depart lasting legacies that might stand the take a look at of time and contribute to the event of Ekiti State.
He additionally described public workplace as a place of belief relatively than a business enterprise, pledging that the appointees would serve the individuals with honesty, impartiality and transparency.
Apata thanked the governor and the individuals of Ekiti State for the chance to serve, assuring them that the commissioners would hit the bottom working and work in the direction of translating the administration’s imaginative and prescient into tangible outcomes.
The newly sworn-in commissioners and special advisers subsequently took oaths of secrecy on the Executive Council Chambers, after which they commenced their maiden Executive Council assembly.
The occasion was attended by the Deputy Governor, Monisade Afuye; Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Adeoye Aribasoye; Secretary to the State Government, Habibat Adubiaro; Head of Service, Folakemi (*10*); members of the State House of Assembly and Executive Council, conventional rulers, group leaders and relations, amongst others.
