By Michael Adeyemo
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Engr. Ademola Adedapo has lauded the ongoing massive infrastructural development drive embarked on by the Bola Tinubu administration, affirming the huge potential it portends for our nation’s economy.
Adedapo, an aspirant for the House of Representatives seat for Ayedire, Iwo, and Ola-Oluwa Federal Constituency, spoke during a Thanksgiving service to commemorate the 50th birthday celebration of his wife, Mrs Tosin Adedapo which held at Rhema Chapel, Kado Abuja.
Engr. Ademola who formerly worked in the Federal Ministry of Works said from his experiences as a World Bank Project Consultant and his exposure to many developed countries, he is certain that the current administration is ticking all boxes required to rejig the economy and better the lives of the citizenry.
“The importance of infrastructural development can not be overemphasised. It is the backbone of development. This model has helped in countries like Brazil and Turkey, and I am happy we are replicating the same here.”
“The mid-term report of this administration shows that there are over 440 ongoing road projects, including over 2700km of superhighways. Some of these legacy projects include the Lagos – Calabar coastal road, Sokoto – Badagry, the Oyo – Ogbomoso road, and the Ibadan – Ile Ife – Ilesha – Akure – Benin road. It is also fair to mention the ones ongoing in my state, the N12 billion Ilesa – Eti Oni road in Atakumosa East LGA, and the N6.620 billion rehabilitation of 44kilometres Ilobu – Ifon – Ilie road among others.”
“Also, the administration’s commitment in the other sectors such as energy, transportation, aviation, and agriculture are highly commendable. Significant investments in power generation and transmission to support economic growth are yielding positively, as well as Kano-Kaduna $254.76 million rail project, modernizing Nigeria’s logistics network.”
Adedapo, however tasked respective state governments to key into this development by constructing quality link roads to the various FG projects around their state as this is the only way to ensure that the set-goal of these massive infrastructural drives to reach the targeted objective.
He subsequently thanked everyone who came out to celebrate his wife and urged the citizens to keep the faith as the policies and efforts of President Bola Tinubu has put the country on the right track and in no distant time transform our economy and uplift our people.