Oyo AP candidate, Ladoja assures on road completion

Warns against INEC, NURTW collaboration on elections

The Accord party (AP) governorship candidate in Oyo state, Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja has assured the people of Oyo State that the Ibadan circular road project would be a priority of his government.

    According to Ladoja , the Ibadan circular road will be done in phases in such a manner that the financing of the road will not interfere with the execution of projects in other key sectors of the state, pointing out that the road will be an impetus for both economic and social development the state.

    Ladoja at an interactive session with Oyo state indigenes based in the United Kingdom, said his administration had in early 2007 flagged off the construction of the first phase of the circular road, but was abandoned by his successors 

    He accused the APC administration in the state of playing politics with the Ibadan circular road saying he was surprised that despite the promises made by Governor Ajimobi that the project will kick off, the circular road has not seen the light of the day.

   He said the state governor lacked the experience and temperament to govern this state, having failed woefully in fulfilling his promises to the people of Oyo state.

       Ladoja wondered why most of the roads Ajimobi planned to dualised are not completed or some abandoned few months to the end of his administration stressing that the present condition of the Ogbomoso dual carriage way is pathetic as the contractor for reasons best know to the government has failed to complete the project

   He accused Ajimobi of always finding excuses for his failure in the act of governance, and asked why a governor that claims that he spent close to four years in providing peace and security failed to live up to expectation of the people in other areas

   “ Peace and security can only be meaningful if traders and market women make their daily bread without hindrance and unnecessary government overbearing. Security and peace will be meaningful if workers receive their salaries as at when due and are fully engage to provide services they are employed for”, he said

     Meanwhile, The Ladoja Campaign Organisation  has condemned what it called “an unholy alliance” between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Oyo state and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) describing it as a call for anarchy.

   The organisation, in a statement made available to reporters by its Director General, Adeolu Adeleke, said the arrangement by INEC to use buses belonging to the transport union to convey INEC officers during elections was suspect.

    Adeleke said the arrangement was not only wrong on account of NURTW members being loyalists of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state but also posed a grave danger to the integrity of the result of the elections.

“We have been informed that where the APC loses the elections, the result sheets will be altered in favour of the APC before the buses conveying the INEC officers get to the collation centres.

“We want to strongly advise the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Rufus Akeju, not to centralise the hiring of buses; rather, the electoral officer in each local government council should be given the opportunity to hire buses without any condition attached to it,” Adeleke said.

 “We want the INEC REC to conduct free and fair elections in the state and warn him not to engage in any activity that will change the will of the people, as any attempt to do so will be strongly resisted.