Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed yesterday debunked reports that traditional rulers from the southern senatorial district complained about the state of roads in the district.

He said the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the state, Senator Simeon Ajibola, misrepresented traditional rulers in the state in a bid to secure votes.

Some traditional rulers in Kwara-South had reportedly bemoaned the state of the roads in Kwara when Senator Ajibola's campaign train visited them.

They said economic growth of their domains had been adversely affected by bad roads, according to a statement from the PDP campaign.

But Governor Ahmed urged the public to treat "this latest alleged complaint by the traditional rulers with serious suspicion as previous statements attributed to the monarchs by the PDP were denied as a fabrication".

He said the road allegedly referred to by Olofa of Offa was Ajase Ipo-Erinle Ile road which the PDP-controlled federal government failed to repair in the past six years.

Speaking through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Dr Muyideen Akorede, Ahmed said the state government's published road development strategy shows how many roads it intends to construct annually and at what cost. He added that the federal government's reduction of allocation to the state "has seriously hampered planned and ongoing road projects.

"It is on record that the Kwara State government has prioritised road construction in the past four years, constructing and rehabilitating over 800km of urban and rural roads while other roads like Share-Oke Ode, Anilelerin Offa and so are ongoing.

"We challenge the PDP candidate to tell us what he has done about major federal roads in Kwara South such as Ajase Ipo-Erinle and Omu-Aran Egbe Road in his 12 years at the Senate," he said.