Odere, who made he remark during an official visit to the park said when completed the intervention would no doubt becomes a beehive of modern economic activities in the southwest geopolitical zone .
The governor’s aide also used the occasion to present a letter of “strategic engagement to magnify the ABUAD Industrial Park to Nigerians in the Diaspora in general and diaspora to the founder ,Aare Afe Babalola.
Odere said the industrial park, which is currently under construction, “is poised to redefine the concept of industrial park in Nigeria as there are no half measures in doing things when it comes to Baba.”
In his remarks, Aare Babalola said he was glad that the governor’s aide recognized the great potential of the Park and that he’s very willing to get involved in making it a great success he had envisaged. “I can see that you’re a man of vision,” Chief Babalola commended.
The highly elated governor’s aide said the Park could not have come at a better time than now stressing that it would compliment the Knowledge and Economic Zone envisioned by the Fayemi administration.
He explained that there were even more reasons for international investors and the state’s upwardly mobile, high end professional Ekiti indigenes in the Diaspora and Friends of Ekiti who are desirous of development to look in the direction of the state because in a population of about 3million people, 60 percent of the state’s population are youths.
According to Odere “a huge economic transformation of Ekiti state is already at hand when you take into consideration the cargo airport which Dr. Fayemi has promised would be completed before the end of his tenure next year.
“If you throw into that axis the knowledge economy zone that’s already a construction site of its own, not to talk of a rail line already in the pipeline that will make a detour to the axis as well as the tertiary institutions like ABUAD, the Federal Polytechnic and the state-of-the-art teaching hospital all in the same environment with this industrial park, what you have is a very big game changer.”
“We’re actually having a fantastic economic phenomenon sitting on our laps in the state. And one can therefore say without any fear of contradiction that Gov. Kayode Fayemi is the architect of modern Ekiti”, he declared.
“The state has 85 percent adult literacy and 95 percent youth literacy levels which are considered to be the highest in the country. This is a mouthwatering, easy-to-train workforce for any astute investor. We’re in the top 3 brackets in academic per capita among the 36 states in the country”, Odere emphasized.
Odere however thanked AareBabalola for having contributed more than any Ekiti indigene, dead or alive, to the economic development of Ekiti state.
