Tinubu blasts FG over dilapidated roads

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

LAGOS – Immediate past governor of Lagos State and National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, condemned the Federal Government for the poor state of federal roads across the country.

He urged the Federal Government to terminate the concession contract for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, saying it had failed.

Tinubu, who decried the poor state of the Lagos Airport Road, Oshodi- Apapa Expressway and environs, appealed to Governor Babatunde Fashola to embark on reconstruction of the roads, saying: “we will give you the necessary support.”

Tinubu spoke at the launch of Lagos ACN campaigns for the October 22 council elections, held at Onikan Stadium and an open ground in Tiamiyu Savage Street, Victoria Island.

On the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, he said the concession contract had failed and a better approach should be adopted to fix the road.

The former governor accused the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, government of failing to fix the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, which he described as the arteries of the nation’s economy being the only road linking the major ports and airport in the country.

He argued that PDP had failed to move the country forward since 1999, when the Fourth Republic began and that Lagos residents should not allow it to have an inch in the forthcoming council polls.

On the revenue sharing formula, Tinubu said: “The Federal Government is taking so much of Nigeria’s money. That is why they don’t know how to apply it for development.” He noted that the state of the nation was an offshoot of the last elections which brought the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government to power.

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