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Commuters, Ekiti PDP governorship aspirant decry poor state of federal roads
By Wole Oyekanmi, Ado Ekiti
Many commuters on the Ikare Akoko – Ado Ekiti road have appealed to the Federal and Ekiti State Governments to expedite action on the construction work currently ongoing on the important road.
Also, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Emmanuel Fayose, expressed concern over the deplorable state of federal roads in the state, urging the government to urgently intervene.
Alhaji Hakeem Olanigan, Executive Director of the New national newspaper, Abuja who was trapped alongside other travelers from the federal capital territory last week for about 12 hours was sad that construction work on the major road like that seemed to have been abandoned.
Speaking in the same vein, the PDP governorship aspirant lamented that the poor condition of the roads has caused untold hardship, exposing motorists and travelers to danger, distress, and prolonged suffering.
Fayose, who spoke on Saturday at Iluomoba Ekiti, where he provided palliatives of truckloads of gravel to fill up some impassable portions of the Ijan – Iluomoba axis of the Ado-Ijan-Ikare federal road, said his token was to enable commuters and transporters who had been stranded for some days, to continue with their journeys to their destinations.
His words: “I travelled in from Abuja yesterday. I decided to come by road to get a feeling of what the people are feeling. I discovered that the road is very bad. On getting to Iluomoba Ekiti, I realised that the road was very bad, and there were many trucks, buses and vehicles stuck on the road and they could not move.
“When I alighted from my car to view the portions, some of the drivers and other road users told me they had been sleeping there for five, six days to one week, sleeping on the floor with mosquitoes biting them. Some of them are on business trips carrying goods and products, some are even carrying perishable goods. They cannot deliver them, and they cannot reunite with their families.
“Moved by the ugly situation, I promised to fix the road so that it can be accessible for them, and it is the promise that I have come to fulfil today. We are not in government, but just to help the road users in our own little way. This is the road leading to Ekiti airport, and the facility has been under lock and key. The Federal Government should come to our aid.
“I am using this medium to appeal to President Bola Tinubu to look into our situation. In Ekiti State, we don’t have good roads; it is quite unfortunate. If you come through Abuja, as you can see, this road is very bad. If you come through Aramoko, it is the same thing, same story everywhere.
“Our people are suffering, there is hunger in the land, our youths are riding okada, no jobs, no electricity, no water, just like we are in the jungle, yet we have allocations every month. The state government is insensitive to the plight of the people. This is really unacceptable.”
The worried PDP politician added: “The state government can do some palliative works on this road (Ado – Ijan – Ikare Road) and other ones because our people are the ones using these deplorable roads, and they are the ones who are experiencing the sufferings and feeling the pains.”
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