Popularly called Maigida by his admirers, the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah literarily rode on the crest of the personality of his predecessor, Senator Bukola Saraki to power.

It is thus not surprising that Ahmed has set his sights on ensuring that the achievements of the Saraki era are not easily forgotten. That is not in any way astonishing given the leading role that Ahmed played in the eight years of Governor Saraki.

That is while perhaps, that the political slogan ''Legacy Continues" of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed is indeed the summary of the performance of the present administration.

Governor Ahmed has in the last one year largely consolidated on the achievements of the Saraki administration towards ensuring that there are no abandoned projects in the state.

It should however be noted that shortly after the advent of this administration, there was a retreat by the stakeholders in Lagos where some of the legacy projects and organs of government were reappraised and fine-tuned for optimum performance.

For instance in the education sector, there is now the Ministry of Education and Human Development, distinct from the former Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

From the "Every Child Count" philosophy of the last administration, the present administration has advanced into developing not only infrastructure, but children's skills by providing vocational centres across the three senatorial districts in Erinle, Patigi and Ilorin to complement academic activities.

Govt performance

The present administration has also given school principals and head teachers the power to preside over their schools as they will be held responsible for any lapses while the assessment of teachers will be based on the performance of their students.

Also in health, to ensure access to quality health care delivery within a radius of 500 km, the three state hospitals in Offa, Ilorin, Kaima and Share are being upgraded. The sum of N200M  has been provided in complementing the already existing facilities in the hospitals.

As part of its programme of strategic infrastructure development, the Kwara State Government has constructed over six hundred kilometers of roads across the three senatorial districts of the state as a deliberate effort to open up the State for agricultural and economic development.

"Operation No pot holes" was launched in the early period of the administration to ensure strict maintenance of the roads to the extent that road users would have comfort on the road.

Also, Kwara State Traffic Management Agency has been provided with equipment and other facilities for effective monitoring of traffic while six fire service trucks of the State Fire Service were renovated for effective service delivery.

Two major projects, the Aviation International College and the Cargo Terminal, at the Ilorin international airport which could not take off during the lifetime of the last administration are now fully operational.

In the first one hundred days, the administration it would be recalled also created jobs for 2000 youths who were posted to various private organizations in the state and some ministries but being paid by the state government.

In order to ensure economic prosperity among the residents particularly, the artisans and those involved in various businesses, N250m has been released as  soft loans to enhance their businesses. It is expected that the loans issued under various cooperative societies by selected micro finance banks would be repaid with 5 per cent interest to ensure that others benefit.

Rehabilitation of classrooms

The administration in the last one year also carried out the rehabilitation of 240 blocks of secondary school classrooms, rehabilitation of school for special needs, construction of Pakata-sooto road, Omu-aran to Landmark University road, among others.

Other sectors such as sports, agriculture are being sustained based on the existing system, while the present administration has also signed various MOUs with local and foreign partners towards increasing agriculture productions in the state particularly in the area of rice productions and packaging.

According to the Senior Special to the Governor on Media and Communications Dr Muyideen Akorede, the rational behind the 'legacy continues' slogan in Kwara is to ensure that there is no more abandoned project anymore in kwara before new ones are created, while fresh policies are fashioned out to complement the existing ones.