Oyo LG polls to carry on December 29 2026 –  Oyelade

Oyo state authorities on Tuesday confirmed that the chairmanship and councillorship elections into the 33 native authorities councils within the state would maintain December 29 this yr.

The authorities made this identified in a press release by the state Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade, in Ibadan.

Prince Oyelade stated the state Executive Council, throughout its sitting, had accredited the fee of its counterpart funding to the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) to start preparations for the polls.

According to Prince Oyelade, the elections, which might be co-funded by the state and the native authorities councils, can be financed at a ratio of 60 per cent by the native governments and 40 per cent by the state.

He burdened within the assertion that ₦2,566,800,000 (Two billion, 5 hundred and sixty-six million, eight hundred thousand naira) can be paid by the native governments whereas the state would foot the stability of ₦1,711,200,000 (One billion, seven hundred and eleven million, 2 hundred thousand naira).

He disclosed that that the Council additionally accredited the discharge of ₦437,446,398.58 (Four hundred and thirty-seven million, 4 hundred and forty-six thousand, 300 and ninety-eight naira, fifty-eight kobo) for the accreditation wants of the Abiola Ajimobi Technical University Nursing Programme.

He stated this funding would help the college’s diversification drive from being solely a science and technology-oriented establishment.

The Commissioner burdened that this will even allow the college to turn into self-sustaining because the

University is presently within the closing accreditation course of and failure to fulfill the Nursing skilled Accreditation deadline will put the large funding on the University in danger.

Emphasising that the Seyi Makinde’s administration had already spent over N3billion on the acquisition of kit for the programme’s take-off, he hinted that the council additionally accredited the fee of the counterpart funding for the development, renovation and equipping of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Oyo Annex.

“The council noticed that since about 70 per cent of sufferers accessing companies on the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, aore from Oyo and its environs, the federal government is able to pay its personal 50 per cent counterpart funding, amounting to ₦6,744,379,570.28 (Six billion, seven hundred and forty-four million, 300 and seventy-nine thousand, 5 hundred and seventy naira, twenty-eight kobo), whereas Oyo East LGA can pay the opposite half of an analogous quantity.

“The total sum is ₦13,488,759,140.56 (Thirteen billion, four hundred and eighty-eight million, seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand, one hundred and forty naira, fifty-six kobo)”.