LP, ACN disagree on Amosun’s N260m bridge

The Labour Party in Ogun State on Wednesday took on the Action Congress of Nigeria by accusing the Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s administration of perpetrating “monumental fraud” with its ongoing urban infrastructural renewal projects. The LP also alleged that the Amosun government had been “systematically” looting the state’s treasury by executing projects that do not have any economic benefits to the people of the state.
But the ACN accused the LP of raising false alarm and displaying its ignorance about the running of government in the state.
The State Chairman of the LP,  Olabode Simeon, at a press conference in Abeokuta, faulted the rationale behind ongoing road construction projects across the three Senatorial districts of the state.
He described them as a “systematic means” of siphoning the state’s resources.
Simeon said it was unthinkable that a government would spend N260m to construct a pedestrian bridge.
The LP chairman added that the decision of the people of Oke-Sokori and other residents of Abeokuta not to use the bridge the state government claimed was fitted with air-conditioner signalled the rejection of the “profligate spending” of the Amosun administration.
“We want to say here that nobody is questioning whether it is good or it is bad, we know that it is one of the duties of government to develop our state but the question now is, is he doing it the proper way? Why are you building a pedestrian bridge with over N260m when nobody is ready to use it?”
But the ACN said the LP was only crying wolf where none existed.
The ACN State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Sola Lawal, accused the LP of desperately attempting to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.
Lawal stated that the Amosun administration had been executing projects that would benefit the people of the state.
He said, “Let us begin by looking at those projects they described as having no benefits to the people.
These include massive road construction never witnessed before in Ogun State, huge intervention in agriculture through provision of tractors and other farming implements, books and other educational materials, heavy involvement in security affairs through provision of APCs.”