Kayode Akinmade: Harvest of plaudits as Abiodun breaks 21-year jinx on Ewekoro road

Kayode Akinmade: Harvest of plaudits as Abiodun breaks 21-year jinx on Ewekoro road …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>

NIGERIA returned to civil rule in 1999 after decades of military dictatorship, but democracy didn’t always bring dividends. Ask the long-suffering people of Ewekoro, Ogun State, who for years watched their businesses ruined and many lives lost on the 70-kilometer Abeokuta-Ifo-Ota-Lagos Expressway. Governors came and promises were made, but the people saw no action on the road. Until recently, that is, when the current governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, dared the odds and persuaded a hitherto…

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