APC Decries Makinde’s N8bn Road Project In Oyo

The decision of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to spend N8b on  road project in the state has been described as misplaced priority by the  All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.

The road project proposed is reconstruction of the Lagos/Iwo road Interchange axis in Ibadan, the state capital.

Makinde had, on Friday, announced the state government’s plan to immediately embark on the project which would be completed in about a year as a measure to decongest the area and also give the physical outlook of Ibadan a facelift.

The governor stated this at Adogba Central Mosque where he had joined the congregation for the weekly Jumat service to clear the air on what his government would do in compensation for the facilities expected to be consumed by the reconstruction project.

But Oyo APC in a statement issued on Sunday and made available to journalists in Ibadan by its Assistant Publicity Secretary, Ayobami Adejumo, said the project is a misplaced priority intended to mismanage public funds.

 He said, “The good people of the pacesetter State were taken aback by the action of Governor Makinde last Friday when he chose a Mosque as the place to announce the plan to do a multi-billion project.

“Without any record of presentation at the State Executive Council meeting or consideration and approval by the appropriate organs of government as required by law, the governor reeled out a contract sum for another white elephant project.

“The question on the lips of many people now bothers on how the cost of N8 billion was arrived at even when no picture of the proposed picture has been shown to the world. What is the scope of the reconstruction project and where are the engineering designs where culminated in the contract sum”?

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