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OSUN State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday said the RLG Adulawo Technology City, a public-private partnership (PPP) initiative between the state and RLG Global, a technological device manufacturing company, is helping to power the state's job creation drive.

Speaking at the RLG product discovery day held at the expansive tech city located on the Ilesa-Akure Expressway in Osun State on Thursday, Aregbesola said the giant strides taken by the company had put to shame the contrary expectations of naysayers who saw the vision as an election gimmick that would fizzle into oblivion once recently concluded federal and state elections were over.

He said the challenge the state was facing is temporary, adding that his administration would fulfil all its promises to the people of the state.

The occasion also saw the launch of a new range of innovative products by the company.

Describing the multi-million dollar initiative as a historic monument of the power of vision, the governor revealed that the tech city had, in the last one year, provided direct employment to 150 Osun indigenes and was poised, within the next phase of its operations, to provide employment to 1,500 salespersons who would man kiosks and other sale outposts for RLG products.

Aregbesola revealed that workers at the RLG plant were graduates of the Osun Youth Empowerment Technology (OYESTECH) trained by RLG and were the ones who assembled the beautiful products displayed by the tech company.

"This plant, a public-private arrangement between RLG Ghana and our state, is the biggest in Africa and the first of its kind in Nigeria.

"Given the potential of the electronic market in Nigeria, a firm like this is a necessity. "When fully operational, it will be able to assemble all kinds of electronic gadgets from mobile phones, LCD televisions, desktop computers, laptops, palmtops, tablets, air-conditioners, refrigerators, deep freezers and electronic device imaginable," Aregbesola said.