By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Committee (PCC), Hon. Olasupo Abiodun has said that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will resuscitate the abandoned Ikere Gorge Dam alongside other major social infrastructural facilities in Oke-Ogun.
Hon Abiodun while speaking during a rally for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Governor Seyi Makinde and other PDP candidates, said that the PDP Presidential flag-bearer has assured of his readiness to resuscitate the abandoned Ikere Gorge Dam project, situated in Iseyin Local Government Area
The PDP PCC member stressed that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) has failed to deliver on any of their promises to the people of Oke-Ogun from 2015 to 2023.
“I can categorically tell you that we have the confidence of the leadership of PDP and Alhaji Atiku that the abandoned Ikere Gorge Dam will be resuscitated alongside other major social infrastructural facilities in Oke-Ogun”, he said
Hon Abiodun added, ” the APC Government has promised to complete and put the dam into use for generation of electricity and portable water but as we have all seen, they failed us”.
” Apart from this, there is no federal presence in our region, this will change if we vote for Atiku and return Makinde for second term in office.”
The former member House of Representatives emphasized that the ” Ikere Gorge Dam is a major earth-fill dam in Iseyin local government area of Oyo State with reservoir capacity of 690 million m³.
The dam was initiated by the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo and started in 1983 by the administration of Shehu Shagari and was targeted at generating over five megawatts and supply portable water to residents of Oyo, Kwara, Ogun and some parts of Lagos State.
