CITIZENS COMPASS— Lagos State Governorship Candidate of Labour Party (LP) 2023, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has criticised President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu for hastily commissioning a coastal road that is barely 5 per cent completed.
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road is a 700 kilometers project that is expected to take off from the shores of the Lagos Island, precisely Victoria Island in former Colony of Lagos, and continues to go until it terminates in Calabar, South South Nigeria.
A social media platform, Objectv media, had countered the president’s claim of 30-kilometre completion of the projection, saying what the Tinubu administration, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and their supporters have celebrated as an achievement in the government’s two years in office is not even up to the acclaimed 30 kilometers.
Reacting to the propaganda-borne controversy, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour posted a statement via his X handle on Thursday, wherein he said it is impossible to commission a project that is less than 5 per cent and still gloat over it as having done anything spectacular.
Rhodes-Vivour said, “Not only is it shameful to roll out the drums to commission less than 5% of a project, they still had to lie and spew propaganda on the so-called 30km.
“This is the same way the minister of finance went abroad to reel out fake data only to be checkmated by data from the CBN days after. So embarrassing.
“While insecurity is on the rise they are shamelessly promoting the “genius” of the NSA.
“The harsh truth is that a party fixated on politics and propaganda cannot govern effectively. That is why Nigerians are much poorer today than they were less than a decade ago,” he said.
