Top businessmen in Oyo State and a host of traditional rulers on Friday joined the State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde to woo foreign investors towards investment in Oyo State.
The participants who were concerned at the Oyo State International Business Summit held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London Kensington, on Friday, May 19 where the Governor of the State held his audience convinced for hours.
The meeting was called to draw international investors to the great economic potentials and opportunities that abound in the State.
Makinde held a series of business meetings with potential investors where business communities, stakeholders, traditional rulers, captains of industries, legislators, and cabinet members including members of the First Family and political associates gathered to discuss the wayforward for real economic growth and development of the State.
Some leading investors in the State including multi-billionaire businessman, Engr. Dotun Sanusi, Chairman of Ilaji Hotels and Sports Resort, Akanran Ibadan; a frontline serial investor, Dr. Abib Olamitoye and a host of others in the State and in Diaspora, spoke delightedly about the governor’s economic widening consciousness.
In his reaction, the Apesinola of Yorubaland and Proprietor, Ilaji Hotels and ICAST, Dotun Sanusi who is a
an ally of Makiinde could not hold back his joy at the success of the meeting in London.
According to him he said “our Governor, despite just winning a rightly deserving second term, is taking governance to utopian height as he is living to his promise that he won’t rest on his oars until the State takes its pride of place as the best and investors destination of choice in the country.’
Dotun Sanusi added : “The Governor took the international investors through the historical antecedents of the State; its rich culture, accommodating spirit of its people and their untapped resources in the mining, great hospitality, and agricultural potentials”
“His Excellency without any doubt is the best man for the job of governing our dear State at a time like this. He is putting his energies and resources to ensure we can achieve what our people ought to have been enjoying before now”
“I saw him displaying dexterity and professional Marketing strategies so much so that he is to me our Chief Marketer. You need to also see his wife, displaying the rare qualities of a person selling the State like never before. I am proud of them”
“The gains of this meeting will start manifesting sooner than expected because global investors saw the sincerity of purpose in him and were able to figure out his efforts at changing the shenanigans of our State for the better in the last four years,” Sanusi added
Other participants at the Summit included the Governor’s wife, Mrs. Tamunuominini; the trip’s Coordinator Peter Eledan; Oyo Speaker,Adebo Ogundoyin and the Deputy Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly; serving House of Representatives’ members; the Chief of Staff to the Governor; commissioners amongst other economic advisers of the Seyi Makinde-led administration including a former Speaker of Oyo Assembly, Sen. Monsurat Sunmonu; the Olugbon of Ile Igbon, Oba Francis Olusola Alao, alongside other monarchs from Afijio and Ibarapa Areas of the State including some Ibadan senior chiefs and Mogajis.
