- The APC in Oyo state, Ibadan, has launched another attack against Governor Seyi Makinde’s government
- The party is angered over the huge sum of money Makinde claimed to have spent for the partial execution of the Ibadan Circular Road Project
- The spokesperson of the Oyo APC, Olawale Sadare, levelled a serious allegation against Makinde regarding the state’s fund
TheTalk.NG journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.
Oyo state, Ibadan – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has cried out over what it described as an alleged monumental fraud, which the party claimed it discovered in the partial execution of the Ibadan Circular Road Project.
Oyo APC blasts Makinde over Ibadan road project, urging him to be transparent and judicious with the state’s funds.
Photo credit: Seyi MakindeSource: Facebook
In a statement made available to TheTalk.NG on Wednesday, March 27, Oyo APC warned that the unabated corruption being perpetrated by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde could plunge the state into irredeemable doom in the near future.
At the commissioning ceremony, which took place at Badeku Junction on Ife-Ibadan Express Road last Friday, Makinde announced that the Ibadan Circular Road Project was the largest investment in Oyo state in 50 years. He noted that the project had cost a whopping sum of N300 billion.
Anambra state governor, Professor Charles Soludo, was the special guest of honour at the event.
Reacting to the above assertion, via a statement issued on Wednesday by its publicity secretary, Olawale Sadare, Oyo APC queried Governor Makinde on the rationale behind his government redesigning the road project to occupy 425 metres.
Sadare noted that the ongoing indiscriminate demolition of properties of poor citizens was to serve the interest of the governor and his cronies.
“There are many questions begging for answers as far as this matter is concerned; how did Gov. Makinde spend N300billion on less than a quarter of the whole project when his predecessor, late Senator Abiola Ajimobi, had awarded the contract for its design, construction and completion as well as payment of compensation to those who might lost their properties to construction activities at a total cost of N70billion in June 2017 while the contractor had done about 20 percent of the work before he was sent away when the PDP government came on board in 2019?
“The sad thing is that the proceeds of these inflated contacts end up in private pockets without any trace. This kind of funds is what some governors in other states are using to rejig agriculture, fix education sector, address hardship among the masses among other things in their domains. Public primary and secondary schools are in dire need of subject teachers, virtually all the inner and access roads are in bad shape, no public tap water anywhere in the state, the population of the poor increases every day and yet, Gov. Makinde mis-appropriates scarce resources to the detriment of the welfare of the people. This has to stop.” APC said.
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In other news, TheTalk.NG reported earlier that Sadare revealed five things President Tinubu should do to fix the economy from further collapse.
The APC chieftain disclosed that if the steps are taken, it will assist the federal government better in meeting the demands of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its counterpart, the Trade Union Congress(TUC), and avert the proposed planned strike.
Sadare, looking at the development from a different perspective, revealed that Tinubu can fix the nation’s issues in five simple ways, and Nigerians will smile, and the economy will be revived.
Source: TheTalk.NG
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