Amosun Blasts Gbenga Daniel, Mimiko

The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun has today blasted his predecessor, Gbenga Daniel, and current Ondo State Governor, Segun Mimiko for describing his administration's infrastructural development and urban planing as elitist and exorbitant.

Messrs Daniel and Mimiko had this weekend described Mr. Amosun’s policies as elitist. In a statement signed by Mr. Amosun's Information Commissioner Yusuf Olaniyonu, they said were wrong in their statements.

“Ogun State Government sympathised with former Governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel over the mischievous comment he made on the infrastructural development and urban renewal in the state while launching the secretariat of his faction of the Labour Party in Abeokuta at the weekend.

“’The government equally expressed disappointment at the unguarded and uninformed statement made by Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko while speaking at the same occasion,” the statement read.

Amosun said that his predecessor's comment was just him trying to justify his failure as a governor in the eight years that he was governor. “In some more developed democracy where the machinery of justice move swiftly, Mr. Daniel will not be in a position to be grandstanding and making empty claims.

He should be ashamed that in his lifetime, what he failed to achieve as governor is now being accomplished with ease”. “He was talking of roads being constructed at high cost

We say it with all sense of responsibility that contracts in today’s Ogun State are being awarded at the best possible cost in the country and ours is an administration that is extremely frugal with the resources of the state.

“Mr. Daniel thought he was being smart and playing to the gallery when he was reeling out false figures about the cost of road projects during his tenure and now. We challenge him to mention which of the road projects he constructed could match what we now have across the state”.

Source: Legit.ng