The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State Engineer Seyi Makinde on Thursday asked the Federal government to stop given excuses on the deplorable condition of the Oyo /Ogbomoso expressway which is one of the busiest inter states roads in Nigeria.
Currently the Federal Government’s reconstruction project is ongoing on the Oyo-Ogbomoso Expressway, which, according to investigations, had been abandoned since the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo but now has been taken far by the current administration.
However, Engineer Makinde in a statement issued by his campaign office and signed by Prince Dotun Oyelade, Makinde declared that the neglect of the Oyo /Ogbomoso expressway is a sad example of a system that has failed.
The PDP governorship candidate maintained that he personally experienced the anguish of commuters on the Oyo/Ogbomoso expressway “three days ago when he saw motorists and villagers using axes and cutlasses to create routes through thick bushes for stuck vehicles to pass when normal routes became impassable.”
According to Engineer Makinde, ” what is urgently needed was not the Town hall meeting held in Ibadan to discuss the condition of the road because everybody knows what should be done, saying, “rather, government should simply show compassion as a result of the death toll that has kept increasing including the wiping out of an entire generation of the family of the Chairman of NURTW in Ogbomoso, Alhaji Gbadamosi last week”.
Emphasizing that the situation has reached boiling point and that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) must be tired of given excuses on one of the busiest inter states roads in Nigeria.Engineer Makinde advised government to also stop given lame excuses on the Ibadan -Iseyin and Oyo -Iseyin road.
