Oyo faults Ladoja’s comments on Ibadan flyover

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IBADAN — GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi-led administration in Oyo State has advised a former governor in the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja to eschew political bitterness in his criticism of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, government.

The state government was reacting to the comments made by the ex-governor on the Mokola flyover commissioned by leaders of the party.

Speaking through the Commissioner for Works and Transport in the state, Mr. Kayode Adepoju, the state government said, “it is as if the former governor is deliberately out to misguide the people with a lot of information that are far from the truth, inconsistent and outright misinformation and which portrays the old man as somebody with little or no knowledge about the essence of a fly-over.”

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Adepoju, who spoke in Ibadan, further said; “Former governor Ladoja doesn’t seem to understand the difference between the usual bridge constructed over a river and a fly-over which is meant to solve traffic gridlock and whatever one is done to ensure that the purpose is not defeated should not be seen as an admission of low quality or standard as being portrayed by the former governor”.

“As an engineer of many years with a name to protect, I can’t be here over-seeing sub-standard construction. So, it is very wrong and uncharitable to conclude that barriers were put on the bridge to avoid its collapse. What purpose will the bridge serve if an articulated truck should break down on it or fall on the ones plying the main road under the bridge?” Adepoju asked.

Ladoja also stated the contract sum was incongruent with that of a similar bridge in Ogun State.

To this, Oyo government said it was absolutely wrong to compare two structures constructed in two different places as the former Governor Ladoja had done in his comparison of the Mokola, Ibadan bridge with the one in Abeokuta.

He added that there was difference in the length of the two bridges and the cost because of the ancillaries that accompanied the one constructed in Ibadan at a total sum of N2.9bn.

He also faulted the rumour that the Chinese firm that bilt the bridge, CCEC was owned by Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu noting that the firm was owned by the government of China.

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