The founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has urged the Federal Government to revisit the airport project it planned to establish in Ekiti State.
Babalola, who spoke at the weekend at ABUAD’s fifth convocation, regretted the state of the federal road to the institution.
The eminent lawyer has been repairing the road in the last eight years.
He regretted that the Ekiti airport project had been stalled by politics while other states, whose similar projects were approved, had either made theirs operational or got them to various stages of completion.
According to Are Babalola “I apologise for the bad roads, which you had to go through to get to ABUAD. As a matter of fact, the federal road from the town to this place is so bad that the university has been responsible for its repairs and maintenance for the last eight years.
“Yet, our university is the only one that can boast of having students from all 36 states. Thank you for your perseverance.
“It is for this reason we have been pleading with the Federal Government to revisit the airport, which was approved for this state with Bayelsa, Delta and Gombe in 2007.
“Whereas the other three states have completed their airports, that of Ekiti State was politically aborted because of the then Governor Kayode Fayemi, who said the airport was not his priority even though the Federal Government had allocated N680 million for its take-off.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I plead with all of you today to please plead with the Federal Government to revisit the airport project
