Date: 2019-01-23

Accord Party Governorship candidate in Kwara State, Prince Ayorinde Adedoyin, has attributed the poor industrial base of the state to lack of ideas by the successive administrations since 1999 on how to drive the economy of the state forward.

Adedoyin, while speaking with his supporters in Ilorin, the state capital, on Tuesday noted that 90 per cent of the industries running in the state have collapsed in the last 19 years due to very harsh operating environment and lack of interest by the state government to work with the moribund industries.

He said: "All the major incentives to help industries to thrive that a government should provide like access roads, tax reliefs, power and security are practically not available in our state.

"Where are the likes of Okin Industries that was making the popular Okin Biscuits today? What about Noble Breweries, Kwara Furniture, Oro Bicycles, Tate and Lye, Matchco, Bacita Sugar Company and the luxury watch assembly plant in Buari?

"Where is Global Soap and Philip Morris and other factories that were employing thousands of our people? "Are they operating at the maximum capacity? "Most of the Industries have been converted to Event Centres."