As part of efforts geared towards repositioning the administration for
better service delivery, members of Ekiti State Executive Council and
top functionaries of the government will commence a two-day high level
retreat in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, from Thursday.
The two-day retreat, according to the Chairman of the Planning
Committee and Secretary to the State Government, Mr Biodun Oyebanji,
would, among other things, involve a comprehensive review of the
developmental efforts of the administration in relation to its five
pillars of development.
All serving Commissioners, Special Advisers and Permanent Secretaries
in the state and some top government officials are to participate in
the retreat with the theme: “Finishing Well and Sustaining
Progressive leadership in Ekiti State”,
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN);
former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Ibrahim Shettima; Senator
Olubunmi Adetunmbi (Ekiti North); renowned Economist, Dr Ayodeji
Teriba and Development Specialist, Dr Otive Igbuzor; are among the
facilitators for different aspects of the retreat.
According to Oyebanji, the retreat will afford the government top
functionaries to assess the mid-term Ekiti Governance Review Report
2020; reflect on the first two years (2018-2020) of the Dr Kayode
Fayemi-led administration in Ekiti and realign programmes and plans
with new governance priorities as well as reflect on how the
government can improve on service delivery and governance to ensure
more impactful outcome.
It will also seek to energize existing team spirit and imbue
innovative thinking among top government official as well as evolve
government strategies established on the interlinks and flow between
vision, focus, plans, policies to budgets, policies and programmes for
the overall benefit of Ekiti State.
Stressing that the first high level retreat of the administration’s
top officials held in Iloko-Ijesha, in May 2019, laid a solid
foundation for the development strides of the government, Oyebanji
said the planned retreat will assess how far the administration has
come from the Iloko retreat and what has been left undone with a view
to deciding on priorities for the next two years.
