Governor of the Year (Good Governance and Security): His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde

Born on 25 December 1967 in Ibadan, Oyo State, to Late Pa Olatubosun Makinde and  Madam Abigail Makinde of Aigbofa Compouind in Oja’ba, Ibadan.

He attended St. Michael’s Primary School, Yemetu in Ibadan and Bishop Phillips Academy, Iwo Road Ibadan. He also attended the University of Lagos, Akoka Yaba, Lagos and graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990.

He was trained in Industrial Control Services in Houston, Texas in 1998; and Development of Analytical Competence at Lagos Business School (now Pan African University) in 1999. He studied Fundamentals of Crude Sampling at Jiskoot Auto Control Training Centre, Kent England in 2002, and Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2005.

Seyi Makinde was elected Governor of Oyo State on March 10, 2019. Since then, Seyi continues to fervently pursue policies that will turn around the economic fortunes of the people of Oyo State and reinstate it in its position as the Pacesetter State.

His Roadmap for Accelerated Development in Oyo State rests on four pillars: Education, Healthcare, Security and the use of Agribusiness to drive the Economy. He is determined to run an inclusive government, and maintain an effective feedback system, so he remains apprised of all governance challenges facing the people of Oyo State.

Seyi remains committed to using his office as Governor of Oyo State, to bring about development that will outlast his tenure and be used as a benchmark for good governance in Oyo State and Nigeria.

In the past three years, the Governor Seyi Makinde led administration has embarked on infrastructural projects to give the people of the state the benefits of good governance.

Some of this projects include the construction of four modern bus terminals strategically located at exits and entrance of Ibadan; Iwo Road, New Ife Road, Challenge and Ojoo, construction and rehabilitation of roads and bridges and junction improvement to decongest traffic within major cities such as General Gas Flyover, Challenge/Felele junction improvement, Dualisation of 9.7km Saki Township Road, reconstruction of Moniya-Ijaiye-Iseyin Road (65km), rehabilitation of the 45.3km Saki-Ogbooro-Igboho Road, reconstruction of Airport-Ajia-New Ife Express Road with a spur to Amuloko (21km), reconstruction of Awotan-Apete-Akufo Road – a rigid concrete pavement road (12km), reconstruction of Akingbile-Lagbeja-Ajibode Road (4.78km), Inclusion of road furniture such as; traffic signals, lay bye, road marking and zebra crossing. Other infrastructural initiatives include the construction of computerised VIS Centre at Idi-Ape, acquisition of 106 buses for mass transit scheme and the ‘Light up Oyo’ project which covers 400km of roads across the state.