Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun disclosed on Friday that his administration has so far attracted over $200billion investments.
Amosun said the administration would continue to create an enabling environment, improve upon the infrastructural facilities and security to attract more investors.
The governor made the disclosure while presenting new an 18-seater bus to the National Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), at the Governor’s Office, Abeokuta.
Amosun spoke through the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Taiwo Adeoluwa, saying that Ogun State has emerged the industrial hub of Nigeria, having beaten Lagos and Kano States respectively, to become the investors’ first destination of choice.
He noted that the administration would not have been able to turn the fortune of the state around for good without the active support of NACCIMA, the organised private sector and other stakeholders, saying the bus donation is meant to further acknowledge the contributions of the body to the state’s success story.
The National President of NACCIMA, Iyalode Alaba Lawson, said her emergence as head of NACCIMA has brought tremendous improvement as investors have continued to invest in the state, pledging that more investors would come to further boost its socio-economic status.
Mrs Lawson lauded Amosun for the government’s infrastructural development, provision of good roads and adequate security, saying those are the issues investors considered first, before coming to the state.