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The Ogun State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has carpeted the former Governor of the State and Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, over his recent interview on some of the projects going on in the State.
Daniel,
in a recent interview said he initiated some important projects which were
under reported due to 'bad press', including
the iconic Gateway Agro-Cargo Airport started by the administration of Prince
Dapo Abiodun about three years ago and nearly completed with the longest runway
and largest apron in Nigeria and West Africa corridor.
Reacting
to Daniel’s statement on Sunday, Tunde Oladunjoye, the Publicity Secretary of
APC in the State, said the statement credited to Daniel was nothing but a
product of hallucination by a serial failure.
He
insisted that the lawmaker did nothing to suggest seriousness of his administration
to build any airport in the State, adding that the former governor in his usual
character merely announced the proposed airport and the intending location as
mere political statement for immediate gains.
According
to Oladunjoye, the area proposed for the airport by Daniel’s administration
remained a thick forest while billions of naira were siphoned under the guise
of consultancy for the implementation of the project.
"Unlike
the deceptive 8-year administration of Daniel, that was characterized with high
level of fraud, political assassination and widespread brigandage, Abiodun came
on board with integrity, and purposeful leadership skill, which is practically
responsible for the remarkable success his administration had recorded in the
last five years, and the reason for the present headache of his hitherto
traducers, including Gbenga Daniel.
"Setting
the record straight, like many other failed Governors of Daniel type, who
merely made political statements about projects to manipulate people's emotions
and deceive them for political gains, the Agro-Cargo Airport situated at
Ilisan-Iperu axis of the State was just one of the many areas where Otunba
Gbenga Daniel failed the people of Ogun State very woefully.
"Gbenga
Daniel, after announcing construction of an Airport in the year 2006, the area
earmarked for the project remained a tick forest till 2019 when Prince Dapo
Abiodun came into the saddle. Daniel’s successor, Ibikunle Amosun based on the
nature of his personality and pattern of reasoning did not even open the file
of the proposed Airport throughout his eight years in office, the same way
Daniel abandoned all the projects left behind by his predecessor, Aremo
Olusegun Osoba.
"The
recent interview of having the grand or master plan for what Governor Dapo
Abiodun has been accomplishing is not only self-ridiculing, it is simply a
sheer hallucination of a serial failure and shameful acceptance of failure on
the part of Mr. Gbenga Daniel. His interview and comment on Governor Dapo
Abiodun reek of deep envy and insensitive lack of modesty," Oladunjoye
averred.
The
Ogun APC Publicity Secretary further took a swipe on the former Governor, asserting
that his ineptitude, deceptive tendency, and maladministration were responsible
for his unpopular administration and not bad press as he claimed.
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