Kwara Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed has called for the consolidation of the unity of purpose expressed by the Nigerian electorate on June 12, 1993 elections.
The Governor, who was reacting to the recent investiture of late MKO Abiola with the GCFR having been declared the official winner of the annulled June 12 polls by President Muhammadu Buhari, said the event was significant because it heals wounds.
“June 12 activity today is a very significant one and we are happy that even if it has been seen as a watershed it signifies one very important thing.
“For me June 12 is a programme that should not be seen as just an avenue to honour Chief MKO Abiola and others that got award, but a remembrance of a day where Nigerians expressed themselves as a people devoid of religious and ethnic differences.
“That is what June 12 should represent for us as a country and that is where we need to consolidate to move ourselves forward as a people,’’ the governor said adding that the awards on civil rights activist, Gani Fawehimi, and Abiola’s running mate, Babagana Kingibe, who were also decorated with GCON honours respectively, were equally noteworthy.
Ahmed said he visited the VicePresident concerning issues involving the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) scheme being run in the state and to give him some updates on them as well as to discuss the success stories and the challenges.
He said that the state had keyed into the MSMEs programmes of the federal government because the programme was congruous with the one being operated by the state.
“It (the MMSE focus lab) was like coming as an up-scaling capacity for us.
For us it has really worked out well as it keyed into the programme of our ministry of human capital development,’’ he said.
He recalled that his administration just set up an international vocational centre, “which we hope the Federal Government and other institutions will take advantage of to begin to see how to drive entrepreneurship beyond the level of training we have in regular schools.
“If you look at it, that is the major gap that requires to be filled in the economy,’’ he noted.
