Vote Tinubu or lose Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway — Umahi

Minister of Works, David Umahi, has warned that the 750-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway might stay uncompleted if President Bola Tinubu fails to win a second time period within the 2027 common elections.

Speaking on Friday, October 23, throughout an unique interview on Arise Television, Umahi said that the foremost infrastructure undertaking is a private initiative of President Tinubu that requires administrative continuity to be totally delivered.

He maintained that solely the president’s re-election can assure the execution of the coastal highway alongside different federal legacy tasks.

“If President Tinubu does not come back in 2027 (God forbid), the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will be gone. “The 750-kilometre coastal highway is intact and cannot be changed, and nobody has the powers to change it, because it’s already designed and it’s ongoing,” Umahi mentioned.

Addressing stories alleging that the coastal undertaking had been deserted in favor of the East-West Road, the previous Ebonyi State governor dismissed the claims as false.

He disclosed that President Tinubu authorised a further 400-kilometre reconstruction of the East-West Road spanning Edo to Cross River State, directing contractors to combine the route into the prevailing hall moderately than clearing completely new alignments.

Umahi attributed route changes alongside the alignment to difficult terrain in Ondo State, the place development crews encountered deep pits exceeding 100 meters and an absence of sharp sand as much as 300 meters under the floor.

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