Senator Shehu Sani, a former senator from Kaduna, responded when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said that Muhammadu Buhari and Goodluck Ebele Jonathan never gave any business a contract to build the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Rail was chosen, according to an announcement made public on the official X handle of Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s special adviser on information and strategy.
Onanuga wrote;
“At no time did the administrations of former Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Goodluck Jonathan award contracts for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway to any company at any varied and revised amount. So the question of costs comparison does not arise. The contract that was awarded was that of Lagos-Calabar Coastal rail. The rail was designed as part of the standard guage national rail network. The contract was awarded on August 4, 2021 by the Federal Executive Council presided over by former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo”.
However, Shehu Sani has now reacted to the report. In a post that he shared on his official X handle, he said the Lagos-Calabar road is a project that has been deliberately neglected by successive governments in Nigeria.
He wrote on his page;
Lagos-Calabar road is a project that has been deliberately neglected by successive governments in Nigeria. Billions of taxpayers money was pumped and the road remained a hellish experience for 18 years. The quality and completion of the project and the human and economic value of the project should matter more than the politics of it. Corruption and politics was responsible for its stagnation for nearly two decades”. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
