S/West Governors reiterate commitment to regional integration South West governors have reiterated their commitment to regional integration which includes social services, commerce, health, agriculture infrastructural development towards ensuring even development of the region.

The governors who stormed Ibadan,

Oyo State on Wednesday disclosed that they have come to inaugurate Dawn Commission office towards the take-off of the integration process. 

Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, who spoke on behalf of his

colleagues shortly after inaugurating the Dawn Commission at its Cocoa House

office, Dugbe, Ibadan, said "What we have done today is first of all the inauguration of the Dawn Commission office. We are having sub-committees that

would go deeper into all the areas of development.

According to him, in the end, the objective is to turn our region to a hub for development in terms of being the first area of call for investors visiting Nigeria.

The Director General, Dawn Commission, Dipo Famakinwa, said, "What the

governors have done today is to inaugurate the Dawn Commission which would

midwife the process of ensuring that the regional integration agenda of the South-West states begins to get attraction.

He explained that all the governors in the South-West, including Governor

Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, were expected at the meeting, saying "All

the governors in the South-West belong to the council of the Dawn Commission.

"All the governors were invited but you can't really say why a particular

governor was absent. Some of those who came must have made a lot of sacrifices. We expect that the Ondo governor would be there at the next meeting slated for August. "I don't want us to look at it as a Yoruba thing but as a development taking place in the Western part of Nigeria because we need the strength of everybody. The development of our states is not going to be by the Yoruba alone. "Primarily, the Yoruba people inhabit the place called western Nigeria but we are trying to annex the strength and capability of everybody, including foreign investors to enjoy the development framework that we put together," he added. 

He said that the idea was to build regional co-operation on cultural development, education, health, rail transportation, governance and

institution, security and all facets of development that are critical to the region.