The local chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State yesterday took on former governor Otunba Gbenga Daniel over his remarks on some ongoing projects in Gateway State.
Daniel, now the senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District allegedly claimed in a media chat that he initiated some projects, including the Gateway Agro-Cargo Airport, which were under reported due to ‘bad press’.
The airport project, which was kicked-off three years ago by the Prince Dapo Abiodun administration, has the longest runway and largest apron in Nigeria and on the West Africa corridor.
APC reacted through a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Tunde Oladunjoye, who dismissed the former governor’s claim as 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 the Daniel administration remained a thick forest, alleging that the former governor played politics with the project.
He said: “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 did not even open the file of the proposed Airport throughout his eight years in office.
“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 an acceptance of failure on the part of Daniel.
“His interview and comment on Governor Dapo Abiodun reek of deep envy and insensitive lack of modesty,” Oladunjoye said.
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