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Following the Oyo State House of Assembly's passage of the Oyo State Security Network Agency Bill, signed the legislation into law establishing the state's arm of the Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun), giving the corps a legal foundation to operate alongside conventional policing.

The Oyo Amotekun Corps was operationalised with 1,500 pioneer officers by November 2020 and has remained active since, supplementing police patrols in rural and border communities. Insecurity has nonetheless persisted in parts of the state, including the prolonged 2026 Oriire abduction, showing the corps' limits against heavily armed groups.

On his inauguration day, directed that his own salary as governor be donated toward clearing the backlog of unpaid pensions and gratuities inherited from the previous administration, and approved an immediate increase in the monthly gratuity allocation.

Monthly gratuity releases rose from roughly ₦250 million under the prior court-ordered pace to ₦500 million shortly after inauguration, and to roughly ₦1 billion in later years, significantly accelerating payments to retired teachers and local government pensioners, though the full historical backlog was not eliminated immediately.

Upon assuming office, dismissed local government chairmen and councillors who had been elected on the All Progressives Congress platform under the previous administration, before their tenures had formally expired.

The dismissed officials sued for their unpaid entitlements, and the Supreme Court ruled against Makinde's administration in May 2021, ordering payment of roughly ₦4.9 billion. When the balance remained unpaid, the Court of Appeal in 2023 additionally fined Makinde and co-respondents ₦50 million in damages for disregarding the earlier judgment — a costly reversal of the original directive's legal footing.

Directed the Executive Council to design and adopt the Alternative Project Funding Approach, an innovative financing scheme intended to allow infrastructure projects to proceed despite the state's constrained direct budgetary resources.

The mechanism unlocked a range of road and public infrastructure projects across the state that would otherwise have been delayed by cash constraints. Independent verification of the scheme's total cost and long-term fiscal exposure to the state was not comprehensively published.

Directed the removal of tuition-related fees in Oyo State public primary and secondary schools as part of the administration's education pillar.

Public school enrolment reportedly increased following the policy, but classroom infrastructure, teacher supply, and quality of instruction continued to lag demand across the state's 33 local government areas, limiting the practical impact of the fee removal on overall education outcomes.