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Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
Students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS) have hailed the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, on the efforts of his administration to fix deplorable roads belonging to the Federal Government in the state.
The students in a statement jointly signed by the NANS Ogun State Chairman and the National President of NAOSS, Adeyanju Francis and Kehinde Thomas, respectively, at the weekend, said that the governor’s persistent efforts in ensuring that the Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta Expressway is rehabilitated, showed that he is feeling the agonies of commuters on the road.
The Associations noted that despite that the expressway belongs to the FG, the Ogun State government, under the leadership of Abiodun, has continued to carry out palliative works on the road to ameliorate the pains of motorists and residents along the expressway.
They particularly commended the governor for his recent on-the-spot assessment of the Lagos-Sango Ota-Abeokuta Expressway, where he attributed bureaucratic bottlenecks to the stalling of the reconstruction of the road.
NANS and NAOSS pointed out that Governor Abiodun cannot be held liable for the deplorable condition of the FG’s road, especially when his efforts in the past to make the FG cede the road to Ogun state for reconstruction failed.
The Associations argued that rather to be blamed, the governor should be lauded for his resilience to trudge on and eventually got the nod from the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration to embark on the reconstruction of the important road.
While urging the people of Ogun to continue to support the incumbent administration in the state, the student bodies expressed optimism that the suffering of commuters on the expressway will soon be over, as the governor disclosed that contract for the reconstruction of the road had been signed in May.
On the reconstruction of the 20-kilometre Agbara-Lusada-Atan road, the Associations commended the state government on the level of work done so far on the industrial road.
They added that the governor’s statement that the road would be completed in September further reinforced the confidence of students in his ability to walk his talk, especially on the Infrastructural development of the state.
NANS and NAOSS, however, said that when the road is completed as promised by the governor, it will not only give impetus to the economic wellbeing of the state, but that of the nation.
The Associations, while calling on the FG to give maximum cooperation to the state government on the reconstruction of Lagos-Sango Ota-Abeokuta Expressway, they equally charged Governor Abiodun not to be distracted by “armchair critics” especially on the social media, but be focused on making the best in the country.
