Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has called for patience amid criticisms of his government regarding the conditions of roads in the state.
This is sequel to blames and criticisms that came his way across the past one week on a social media platform, X, when netizens bemoaned the bad roads scattered across the state.
The Governor said this on Monday after an on-the-spot assessment of roads in Ifo Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.
“I want to implore our people to be patient with us. We cannot reconstruct all the bad roads in three years,” the governor said.
“In fact, no administration can reconstruct all the roads in Ogun State, not even in 8 years.”
“When I assumed office on the 29th of May, 2019, the deficit that we met on assumption of office was such that we began to wonder what the previous administration was doing.
“In some instances, they appear to have good intentions, they go to the roads, they demolished houses, roads that should not be more than a single carriageway, they turned them to dual carriageway By so doing, they removed all the asphalt that was there serving the people and abandoned these roads.
“We inherited quite a lot of these roads. Some of those roads are federal roads, and you know our people cannot differentiate between federal and state. They will geo-locate their pains where and when they are feeling it.”
However, he assured of evenly distribution of good road projects across the zones of the State.
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