The gulf between the Ogun State Government and former Governor Gbenga Daniel over alleged contravention of building regulations by the latter widened yesterday.
Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development Tunji Odunlami justified the issuance of compliance notices to 58 property owners in Ijebu-Ode and Sagamu local government areas of the state.
He said the government plans to aid urban development and control land use in public interest’ with its physical planning laws and regulations.
Odunlami told reporters yesterday at a news conference at the Olusegun Osoba Press Centre, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, that the goal of the ongoing regularization in the Sagamu and Ijebu-Ode axis is not to victimize any law-abiding citizens but to ensure that development laws are obeyed.
The commissioner said the physical planning regulations are enforceable at any time and for all time, on all developments in the state including developments that preceded the law.
But the one-time governor accused the Prince Dapo Abiodun-led of double speak and being on a vengeance mission.
Daniel argued that the administration has no moral right to paste notices on people’s properties if it had not pasted the same on his Iperu country home residence.
According to the former governor, Prince Abiodun’s private house built on a major federal road (Iperu- Ode Remo Road) has no setback.
He wondered why the same notices were not pasted on it “if the Dapo Abiodun-led Ogun State Government had no ulterior motive in targeting him and his properties.
He said that the Aseludero Court Hall in Sagamu was the place where Dapo Abiodun’s hand was raised up by him in the build-up to the 2019 governorship election and endorsed before a mammoth crowd of political supporters and associates, wondering why the property had just contravened building regulations six years after Abiodun came into power.
Daniel spoke yesterday at the Aseludero Hall within his Aseludero Court private residence in Sagamu through his media aide Steve Oliyide.
Oliyide spoke with reporters in the company of Akogun Kola Onadipe, a building specialist, who served as a commissioner under Daniel as governor of the state.
