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Inioluwa Ogunleye
1 week ago
Overview
I first wrote about the transformation of Ikogosi Warm Springs and Resort in 2013, twelve years ago. It was during the first tenure of Governor Kayode Fayemi that Ikogosi witnessed the first phase of transformation after years of neglect. What I saw in Ikogosi on the night of 24 April left my mouth agape. If what happened to the resort in 2013 was transformation, the present state of the resort could be called a stupendous re-engineering. The ambience, environment, structures and the quality of service rendered is out of this world. The only comparison I could make was my experience at some top rated hotels in Canada, and even at that, Ikogosi is better.
On 24 April around 6 p.m., I received a call from my younger sister, who asked me to meet her for an impromptu birthday party in her honour by the owner of the resort, Mr John Olajide, whom she had known for a long time. My immediate reaction was, “Ikogosi, this night?” I summoned courage because I know Ekiti State is secure, especially the Ikogosi tourism belt. There have been no incident of kidnapping or bandit attack on that route because the present Oyebanji administration has continued to build on the security architecture laid by the previous Fayemi administration, which gave me courage to embark on the trip.
Curiosity to see Ikogosi again took the better part of me. The last time I was in Ikogosi was in March 2024, when I joined my colleagues for a workshop and spent the night there. It was still undergoing renovation but even at that, it has been so transformed to compete with any other resort in the world. A little over one year after, in April this year, Ikogosi has gone full circle such that it has become a cynosure of all eyes, a dreamland and a place where everybody wants to be.
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