Lagos State Governorship Candidate of the Labour (LP) in the 2023 elections, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has expressed dismay over what he described as a theatrical display by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the commissioning of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, which he claimed is barely 5 percent completed.
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road is a 700-kilometre project expected to begin from the shores of Lagos Island—specifically Victoria Island in the former Colony of Lagos—and stretch all the way to Calabar, in Nigeria’s South-South region.
Objectv Media, a social media platform, had earlier challenged the President’s claim that 30 kilometers of the project had been completed. The platform stated that what the Tinubu administration, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and their supporters have hailed as a landmark achievement two years into office is, in fact, not up to the 30 kilometers claimed.
Reacting to the controversy on Thursday via his X (formerly Twitter) handle, Mr. Rhodes-Vivour criticized the attempt to celebrate a project that is still in its infancy.
He wrote:
“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 about 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.”
