Soneye made the appeal in an interview with the our reporter in Abeokuta on Saturday.

The lawmaker explained that the roads were in a bad condition, especially, the urban roads which had negatively affected the economic activities of the local government.

Soneye said that commercial activities were being wasted on some of these roads by motorists and traders due to the bad roads.

He listed some of the roads to include: Adesan -Abaren, Ofada – Mowe, OPIC – Redemption camp, Magboro – Makogi, Oke Afa, Ibafo -Papa, Ogunrun and Ebute Akoka.

Others are: Arigbawonwo -Omu, Siun -Owode – Geleodun, Oluwo -Ita Baale -Adigbe, OGTV – Kajola – Obafe – Ajebo and Kobape -Oba road.

The lawmaker said that most of the roads in question share close proximity with Lagos, hence, the need to urgently fix them.

He said that fixing the roads would assist in bringing more development and growth to the local government and by extension, the state.

“I want to appeal to the governor to come to our aid in Owode-Local Government as all our roads are bad.

“We have been clamouring for this and we have been agitating for so long, the governor should please come to our rescue.

“The governor should please do something as soon as possible on our roads.”

Soneye assured the people of his constituency that he would continue to be their good representative, calling for continued support and cooperation.

The lawmaker noted that the present administration had been doing everything possible to spread the dividends of democracy across the nook and cranny of the state, calling on the people to continue to support the government.

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Our correspondent reports that the meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who briefed State House correspondents alongside the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello, said the printing contract was awarded to a group of eight printers.

According to the minister, the printing of the examination papers are for both sensitive and non sensitive materials.

”Today, Council approved the award of contract for the printing of examination materials, both sensitive and non sensitive.

”The contract is worth N2.9 billion. It was awarded to a group of eight printers.

”The materials are for the Basic Education Certification Examination, the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and the National Common Entrance.

”As you know because of the recent disturbances, we have postponed the examinations that have not taken place,” he said.

The FCT Minister also told the correspondents that the Council approved the sum of N1.619,701,391.14, for the rehabilitation and upgrade of some selected roads in the satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory Administration.

He explained that N900,294,304.75 of the amount was meant to fix the roads in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT.

Bello revealed that the Council also approved N719million for the upgrading of a road project in Kwali Area Council of the territory.

“During today’s Federal Executive Council, a memo presented by the FCT Administration was approved, and that memo involved the rehabilitation of some road networks within Gwagwalada satellite town.

“The second project approved is the upgrading of seven kilo metres of road, from Kwali (Headquarters of Kwali Area Council) to Ija-Pada to Borro road at a total cost of N719,407,086.38.

“These two projects are complementary to what the FCT administration is doing in terms of providing equal development, development in the city centre, which is the capital city as well as its satellite towns so that distribution of population and amenities can be done in line with Abuja Master Plan,” he said.

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