A prominent chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Engineer Oyedele Hakeem Alao, on Tuesday accused Gov Seyi Makinde of allegedly continuing to inflict hardship on the people of the state.
Engr Alao in a statement in Ibadan by his Media office alleged the governor of inflicting hardship on the people through what he called his lack lustre performance in delivering dividends of democracy.
The APC chieftain emphasised that the time has come for well meaning people of the state to speak out and put the administration of Gov Makinde on its toes before it plunges it into abyss of underdevelopment.
According to Engr Alao “virtually all the roads in Ibadan, the state capital, and other towns in the state, have become dilapidated with motorists facing herculean task in getting to their destination,”.
“There is no doubt that the present administration of Governor Seyi Makinde, has drawn the state back on all indices of development. As at today, no single road in Ibadan, the state capital, is motorable likewise in other major towns in the state, this is shameful for a state regarded as pace setter state”, he said.
Engr Alao added, “I cannot but speak out and call the government out to its responsibility to make life better for the people since those elected were put there to deliver the dividends of democracy to the citizens”.
“The time is now for those who meant well to put the government on its toes as those who who should have done that are afraid of their shadows.”
Emphasising that the Governor Makinde administration has a responsibility to make life better for the citizens, Engr Alao added, “while shirking in its duty of fixing the roads that belonged to the state government and making them death traps, Governor Makinde has succeeded in muzzling the local governments with the elected chairmen becoming more or less glorifying Councilors “
The APC chieftain stressed that the recent directive to the Chairmen to submit to the state government list of five kilometres of roads to be repaired was an admittance of failure and that ” it is a confirmation that there is no autonomy for the councils to operate.’
Engr Alao said: “It is shameful and a monumental failure for a state that has produced prominent individuals for the country, Africa and the world to find itself in such a situation, coming behind states such as Yobe, Borno and Adamawa, considered to be educationally disadvantaged and ravaged by insecurity.”
