Ogun: Not the critic that counts

By Soyombo Opeyemi

Ogun has shed the toga of a Civil Service State and is now robed as an “Industrial Hub”. The unenviable appellation has now been supplanted with “Investors’ destination of Choice.”

There is no point counting the number of industries that berthed in Ogun in the last seven years of the Ibikunle Amosun administration. It is a lot easier to count those yet to make their presence felt in the state. The trend now is, if your business is not in Ogun State, it’s probably not in Nigeria.

Thanks to the humongous investment in security, road, power, education, health, agriculture, housing, etc. by the current government.

So much has been written and said about how the Amosun government turned around the fortunes of Ogun State industrially.

It moved the state from 35th position in 2010 to one of the first five among the 36…