Vote Tinubu or lose Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway — Umahi

Vote Tinubu or lose Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway — Umahi

Minister of Works, David Umahi, has warned that the 750-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway may remain uncompleted if President Bola Tinubu fails to win a second time period inside the 2027 trendy elections.

speaking on Friday, October 23, at some stage in an unique interview on get up television, Umahi said that the major infrastructure undertaking is a private initiative of President Tinubu that calls for administrative continuity to be absolutely introduced.

He maintained that solely the president’s re-election can assure the execution of the coastal street alongside other federal legacy initiatives.

“If President Tinubu does now not come again in 2027 (God forbid), the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway can be long past. “The 750-kilometre coastal toll road is intact and cannot be modified, and no person has the powers to exchange it, because it’s already designed and it’s ongoing,” Umahi said.

Addressing reviews alleging that the coastal venture had been abandoned in prefer of the East-West street, the previous Ebonyi state governor dismissed the claims as false.

He disclosed that President Tinubu permitted an extra four hundred-kilometre reconstruction of the East-West street spanning Edo to move River state, directing contractors to integrate the path into the prevailing corridor in place of clearing completely new alignments.

Umahi attributed direction changes alongside the alignment to difficult terrain in Ondo country, where construction crews encountered deep pits exceeding a hundred meters and a scarcity of sharp sand as much as three hundred meters underneath the floor.