Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has commissioned the road between Otan Ayegbaju and Iresi towns of Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun Central, breaking a 44-year-old jinx of abandonment of the infrastructure.
The governor said the commissioning of the road was a continuation of his midterm anniversary which he said will continue till next week.
Describing the project as historic road, Adeleke said the road has been in a state of disrepair since the second republic.
“For the past 44 years, this road has remained unattended to. I thank God that today our administration has broken the jinx of four decades. We have delivered on our promise to ensure productive connectivity between and among our people. I congratulate the people of Iresi and Otan Ayegbaju on this significant milestone.
“We are opening today a total of 7.5 kilometers of road. This includes three kilometers Iresi township roads and the 4.5 kilometers Otan Ayegbaju-Iresi road,” Adeleke noted.
The people of the two towns were in jubilation as the governor commissioned the road.
Meanwhile, the governor seized the event to address recent allegations of nepotism and favouritism against his administration’s infrastructural plan across the sectors, saying, “Our delivery of good governance is not dictated by ethnic or religious considerations.”
He added, “We treat all towns and cities as our constituency without fear or favour. As a senator and now as a governor, I am an agent of development for all our people.
“Our administration is opposed to politicisation of development. Politics must be an instrument of development, not a tool to divide and retard the progress of our people. Developmental politics is and should be at the heart of development.
“Our administration is determined to press ahead with infrastructure upgrades of Osun state across all sectors. We will not succumb to political blackmail from those who failed our people for decades. We will continue to revive projects they abandoned for several years.
“As for me and my team, we will deploy state resources to build our roads, airports, water systems, schools, hospitals as well as attending to the social and soft infrastructure needs of our people. Our government will not relent to create and recreate facilities to ease and enhance the economic and social life of Osun people.
“If they are limited in their vision of the future of Osun state, our administration is a big thinker, an ambitious leadership and a forward looking regime that sees no limitation to the greatness Osun can achieve as a state.
“That is the spirit behind the five point agenda; that is the motivation for our incredible performance in the last two years.”
