By The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Campaign Council has criticised Governor Ademola Adeleke over the recently commissioned Iwo township road, alleging that the project was poorly executed and awarded to a contractor without the requisite engineering credentials.
In a statement signed by the Head of its Media and Publicity Committee, Engr Oluremi Omowaiye, the Council claimed the 3.6-kilometre road, which runs from Odo-Ori market to Oja-Oba, was handled by Showie-Tee Global Services Ltd, a firm it described as an interior decoration company rather than a certified civil engineering outfit.
The Council alleged that sections of the road had already begun to fail and required emergency patching ahead of the commissioning, describing the project as cosmetic and accusing the administration of prioritising the optics of a ribbon-cutting ceremony over durable construction.
It contrasted the Iwo township project with the Osogbo-Iwo-Ibadan road, a 91-kilometre corridor whose Osun portion, 55.4 kilometres from Osogbo to the Osun/Oyo boundary, was awarded under former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola in partnership with Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde. According to the Council, work on that stretch stalled under the Adeleke administration before Oyetola, now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, helped secure a federal takeover of the project. It said the Tinubu administration subsequently approved full reconstruction of the 90.9-kilometre route in concrete, with a two-year completion timeline, which would make it Osun’s first concrete road.
The Council argued that the Adeleke government should have prioritised completing that larger, federally-backed road over the shorter township project, and called on the administration to treat road construction as substantive governance rather than a campaign spectacle ahead of the 2026 governorship election.
Meanwhile, Governor Adeleke had, a few days earlier, commissioned what his administration described as the first-ever dualised road in Iwo’s history, during a visit to the town that doubled as a re-election campaign stop.
The claims by the APC Campaign Council have not been independently verified, and neither the Osun State government nor Showie-Tee Global Services Ltd had responded to the allegations as of press time.
