The All Progressives Congress APC in Oyo state has accused Governor Seyi Makinde for spending a sum of N5.2billion on the remodeling of the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan.
It said that the said amount Governor Seyi Makinde claimed he used to remodel the Lekan Salami Stadium among others is fraudulent which the APC has now tagged a “failed project”
This latest reaction from Oyo APC came against the backdrop of the reports credited to the Interim Management Committee (IMC) which described the soccer pitch of the Adamasingba Stadium (the home ground of the Shooting Stars Sports Club) as falling below standard and unplayable. IMC is the body set up by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to oversee the nation’s elite soccer league.
On this note, the Oyo APC has now called out Governor Seyi Makinde to either refund the whopping sum of N5.2billion which his administration purportedly spent on the remodeling of the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan or risk being dragged to the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to account for the alleged fraud involved in the award and execution of the ‘failed project’.
In a statement issued on Wednesday and made available to journalists in Ibadan by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, Oyo APC berated Gov. Makinde over his refusal to explain to the world the details of all the stadiums and sports facilities he has used the sum of N5.2b to fix since he claimed that the said amount was not expended on only Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan.
The statement reads:
“Most of our people who visited the Stadium in Adamasingba to watch the recent home matches of our darling team (3SC) against El-Kanemi Warriors and Nasarawa United respectively had given an unpleasant report about the whole stadium facility, particularly the soccer pitch which has just been confirmed as an eyesore by the IMC. This is against the impression that the Makinde administration had created through the mass media.
“It is recalled that the lid was first blown open on the very day the purportedly remodeled stadium was being recomm, issued and the event attracted, a disgrace to Gov. Makinde and the good people of the state instead of the anticipated applause. It happened that the whole place became waterlogged and messy as a result of a minor downpour. What happened on that day should have made Gov. Makinde throw in the towel but he only followed it up with another media campaign equating the substandard stadium facility with those of Maracana, Emirates, and Nou Camp in Brazil, England, and Spain respectively.
“Meanwhile, the revelation coming from IMC about the sordid job done on Adamasingba Stadium did not come to us as a surprise since we had establis5-kilometer-ethe present PDP administration of Gov. Makinde is synonymous with fraudulent contra totaling and kilometers. This is a government that would sponsor some cronies to register some companies with the Corporate Affairs Commission today to give the emergency construction outfits tomorrow without any recourse to Due Process law.
“Sad enough, we also have it on good authority that165 km-orchestrated 5-kilometer road contract award imposed on each of the 33 Local Government Council chairmen totaling 165 kilometers across the state has been given out to the same fake company being used to siphon the resources of the state since 2019. The arrangement this time is for the proxies behind the company to attend to some street roads across Ibadan at random after collecting the full sum for the inflated 165 km road contract and then disappear.” Oyo APC lamented.
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