Kayode Akinmade: How Dapo Abiodun turned housing into engine of urban transformation in Ogun

Drive along the Siun-Sagamu Expressway today and it is easy to miss how recently the landscape around Kobape was little more than open bush. today, standing prominently on that corridor is Prince Court Estate — a thriving residential community of completed and occupied homes, with its own electricity supply, shopping mall, health centre, ATM gallery and security post.
It is more than an estate.
It is a statement of what housing policy can become when it is conceived not merely as the provision of shelter, but as an instrument of economic development, urban renewal and wealth creation.
That is perhaps the most important story behind the housing transformation taking place quietly acr...