Social media users have responded in various ways to a statement made by Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour, a prominent member of the Labour Party (LP), claiming that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the former president of Nigeria, signed a contract with a Chinese company in 2012 to upgrade the Red Line project from Lagos to Ibadan. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
He posted this assertion in a message on Monday on his official X account.
Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour made the statement after the Lagos state government launched the Lagos Red Line project. In a post the he shared on his page, he said the project remained a narrow guage line from Iddo to Apapa for over hundred years before Jonathan signed a contract with the Chinese.
He wrote on his page;
“The fact is that the Lagos part of the standard gauge railway was first laid 125 years ago in 1898 from Lagos to Abeokuta before being extended to Kano. It remained a narrow gauge line from Iddo or Apapa to Agbado/Ijoko to Abeokuta for over a hundred years until the Jonathan Goodluck government in 2012 signed a contract with the Chinese to upgrade it to a standard gauge railway from Lagos to Ibadan”.
However, after he made the post, there were several reactions from social media users. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
Kindly read some of them below.
