Oyebanji: Ekiti Committed to Fostering Culture, Entrepreneurship in Promoting Values

Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti 

The Ekiti State Government has emphasized its commitment to ensuring fostering of culture and entrepreneurship in its avowed agenda of promoting the values of the state.

Governor Biodun Oyebanji, who stated this in Ado-Ekiti at the opening of an innovation summit and festival held at the Obafemi Awolowo Civic Centre, located at Adekunle Fajuyi Amusement Park area of the state capital, Monday, vowed to deploy all available resources and assistance humanly possible towards making the dream a reality.

The governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, (SSG), Habibat Adubiaro, said the government was targeting a situation whereby a brighter future for the younger generation would be guaranteed, through creative and other alternative means that are decent.

“As we are gathered here today, we acknowledge the tremendous potential of our youths who are the driving force behind the Ekiti innovation ecosystem.

“This has reinforced the commitment of the present administration to providing the necessary support, resources and Infrastructure needed to enable them thrive in the digital era,” the governor said.

According to him, with the recently established initiatives like the Ekiti Startup Garage, which serves as a hub for ideas to flourish and transform into groundbreaking solutions for both local and global challenges, Ekiti is already moving towards a prosperous, technologically driven economy.

“As such, we are poised to be at the front -row of digitalised economies, within the nation,” Oyebanji said.

Earlier in an address of welcome, the state Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Digital Economy, Mr Oluwaseun Fakuade, said the summit had become necessary, because it was the resolve of the present administration to transform the state on the path of creativity and innovation.

The commissioner explained that it had always been the target of the present administration, under Governor Oyebanji, to position Ekiti as a beacon of innovation, contributing to Nigeria’s overall economic development and enhancing the prosperity of the people of the state.

He therefore enjoined the participants to take the contents of the summit seriously, so as to justify the trust, for which the summit was conceptualised.