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The candidate of the Labour Party in the November 16 election in Ondo State, Sola Ebiseni, has knocked the state governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa over the state’s portion of the Lagos-Calabar coastal expressway, which is about 100 kilometres.
Ebiseni claimed that the governor failed to act considering that, with the current design and alignment, the road may not transverse Ondo State properly.
The LP candidate stated this while speaking with journalists in Akure, the state capital on Monday.
He said, “Incidentally, candidates of the leading political parties are from the coastal area of the state. Politics apart, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by the Tinubu administration is the most visionary project for the people of Niger Delta.
“The Ondo State portion of about 100kilometre and longest shoreline stands to benefit the most, particularly in areas of coastal investments and management of coastal erosion but available maps of the alignment show that the road may not appropriately traverse the Ondo coastal portion.”
Ebiseni alleged that efforts by leaders of thought from state, particularly the people of Ilaje Local Government, to ensure justice had proved abortive and the governor had been indifferent about it.
“I personally suggested to him, since May (this year), to call a meeting to brief our people for representations like other states and communities to the Federal Government on the proper and beneficial alignment of road owing to palpable tension all over the place.
“Our Governor is busy celebrating one kilometre of the concrete walkway where a project that will enhance the establishment of a deep seaport, coastal investments, redress the coastal erosion in Aiyetoro, and other places, impact our lives and civilisation for good is being allowed to slip by.
“We need a Governor with the proper understanding and clout to make things work.”
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