How Abiodun is turning Ogun economy around

SINCE assuming office as the fifth democratically elected Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, a billionaire business mogul with decades of boardroom experience, has not ceased marketing Ogun State as Nigeria’s investment destination of choice. As a visionary leader, one who, according to Forbes magazine, “sets a long-term vision, creates a strategic plan to achieve that vision, and empowers others to collaborate towards that shared goal”, Governor Abiodun is quite cognizant of the thinking that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is needed to ensure the job creation, capital accumulation and export growth required to tame extreme poverty. He subscribes to the view expressed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives, that well-designed investment promotion and facilitation policies help to ensure that foreign investments support national development objectives…