Nigeria’s Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has dismissed suggestions that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s infrastructural drive is focused solely on Lagos, stating that the President’s four legacy projects cut across the six geo-political zones of the country.
Speaking in an interview with ARISE NEWS on Sunday, Umahi highlighted ongoing and upcoming works in various states as evidence of the Tinubu administration’s nationwide commitment to development.
He said, “I saw in the social media when people say we are constructing all in Lagos. No, that is not a fact. We are, you know, working right now in Calabar and Akwa Ibom, 14th flag off in Cross River, 15th flag off in Akwa Ibom, and 16th flag off of the Trans Sahara route in my own state, Ebonyi state. And that Trans Sahara is running from Calabar to Enonyi, Ebonyi to Benue, Benue to Kogi, Kogi to Nasarawa, and to Abuja. And that’s thethird legacy project of Mr. President.
Umahi then added that the entire network is designed in a loop that integrates all six geopolitical zones, saying, “So, they’re all linked, you know, together. Both Lagos-Calabar is linking through Calabar, you know, down to Ebonyi, to Abuja. And then, at the Lagos end, it’s linked up through the Ahmadu Bello, through a lagoon, which we are going to have a tunnel, you know, through the lagoon, going to the Snake Island, and they take us to Badagry, which is where the Sokoto-Badagry is linked. So, if you look at it, it’s all in a kind of, you know, loop. And you get to Abuja, you now link to North-East, you know, through the Akwanga, you know, Jos-Bauchi-Gombe.
“So, the six geopolitical zones are covered by the four legacy projects of Mr. President.”
