The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, has blamed the delays in reconstructing the Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta Expressway on the federal government’s bottlenecks, stressing that as a federal road, permission from the federal government was required.
In a statement posted on the official X (formerly Twitter) handle of the Ogun State Government, the governor said that both he and Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had made efforts to seek the approval during former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, but their requests were denied.
Governor Abiodun clarified that the current administration under President Bola Tinubu has granted the necessary approval, and the contract for the road was awarded in May.
“The Lagos-Sango- Abeokuta road is a federal government road and has been in a very bad shape for long. Because of the suffering our people pass through on the road, I and my counterpart in Lagos jointly wrote a letter, using a single letterhead to the Federal Executive Council, seeking the transfer of that road for us to reconstruct.
“After waiting for a month without a reply, we wrote a reminder. That road was not handed over to us until the present federal government came on board. The contract for the road has been awarded since May this year,” Abiodun wrote.
