Governor Abiodun Oyebanji of Ekiti disclosed this on Thursday in a press statement obtained by Peoples Gazette.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime has re-awarded the Ado-Akure road which has been in deplorable condition for close to ten years.
Governor Abiodun Oyebanji of Ekiti disclosed this on Thursday in a press statement obtained by Peoples Gazette.
Mr Oyebanji, in the statement signed by his spokesman, Yinka Oyebode, revealed that the approval for the reconstruction of the deplorable road was made by the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
He disclosed that the road would now be fixed through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Tax Credit Scheme with the mobilisation of contractors to the site imminent.
Mr Oyebanji stressed that re-awarding the road for construction was a big relief for motorists and commuters who have been transiting the route facing nightmares.
“The Government of Ekiti State welcomes with excitement and gratitude news of the re-award of the Ado-Ekiti- Akure Road contract by the Federal Government.
“It is also a vindication of the struggle of the Government and people of the state in the last one year,” the Ekiti governor hinted in the statement.
He added that with the resumption of work on the road, motorists would have to show a level of understanding for some inconveniences they might experience in the course of the construction.
Both residents of Ado Ekiti and Ondo States including vehicle owners and commuters plying the road in its deplorable condition had experienced excruciating pains.
Following its bad condition, the journey of forty minutes drive from Akure to Ado is now over an hour just as transporters continued to groan on a daily basis over the condition of the road.
The road was first awarded to Dantata and Sawoe in 2022 for reconstruction but the regime failed to mobilise the contractors to the site.
Last August, the Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, pleaded with the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to expedite action on the commencement of the reconstruction of the road.
Mr Adegoroye told Mr Fashola during a visit to his office in Abuja that both the people of Ondo and Ekiti States have continued to experience too much pain on the bad road and therefore needed a respite.
But in his reply, Mr Fashola noted that lack of funds had made it difficult for the Buhari regime to begin the project, stressing that the road has not been abandoned.