Community association greets Abiodun

The Arepo Central Community Development Association (ACCDA), an umbrella development group comprising about 20 estates and communities in Arepo, has congratulated Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, and his deputy Mrs. Noimot Salako-Oyedele, as they assume the mantle of leadership of the Gateway State.

The ACCDA prayed that their “administration and tenure in office will usher Ogun State into its greater greatness”.

A statement by its President, Prince Kehinde Adeyemo, said the election of the duo was a positive development and a big relief to the communities and citizens who have, in the last eight years, suffered lack of inclusive governance and poor infrastructural growth.

ACCDA hailed Abiodun on his victory despite huge opposition. It urged him not to forget his electoral promises, which centered on transparency, development, inclusiveness and good governance, to fast-pace growth in the state rather than an “arrogant concentration of infrastructure in one region” of the state.

Adeyemo noted the plight of border communities like Arepo, stressing that the only access road which links the community to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has completely collapsed and become unmotorable, having being abandoned for over eight years and remains a death trap.

“Though the road was said to have been awarded since 2006 to First August Construction Company during the first term of former Governor Ibikunle Amosun, there has been no efforts to mobilise the contractor to site, while the former governor turned deaf ears to all pleas by the Arepo community,” he noted.

The president added the association had made several efforts, levying themselves and making monetary contributions to fix the road, not much had been achieved as the road requires government attention with holistic reconstruction.

The road was built by former Governor Gbenga Daniel 15 years ago and has since gone into disrepair. The association president lamented that Arepo Community, which boasts of Journalists Estate, the first of its kind in Africa, and the whole of the world, has, rather than attract the attention and care of the state government, been carelessly and recklessly abandoned by an “unlistening governor”.