Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway: Tinubu Don Approve 100km Stretch For Edo

President Bola Tinubu don approve 100km stretch of di Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway to pass through Edo. Works Minister David Umahi announce dis one for statement wey e drop on Friday. Mr Umahi make di announcement during di Edo Independence Day gala night, wey dem hold for di state villa for Benin City. Mr Umahi talk say Edo no dey part of di original alignment for di project, wey dem first conceive about 47 years ago by Tinubu, but di president give order make dem add am. Di president call me and talk say dis project must pass through Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River. Na why we dey here. Your Excellency, di president don give you 100km of di two lanes of di Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, na wetin Mr Umahi talk be dat. Di minister come hail di government and people of Edo say dem dey support Tinubu administration.

E still praise Governor Monday Okpebholo say e gree to help fix some bad areas of di Benin-Sapele-Warri highway, wey e call death trap for drivers. Mr Umahi also clap for di good work wey di contractor, CBC, dey do and e come order di Federal Controller of Works for Edo make e dey give am daily updates on how di work dey go for site. Mr Okpebholo thank di president say e carry Edo join for di coastal highway project and also for di work wey dey go on for federal roads for inside Edo. E talk say dis kind gesture show say Tinubu love Edo people well-well and e beg residents make dem support di president for 2027 re-election. Mr Okpebholo talk say im government dey ready to transform Edo state infrastructure. E remember how e go visit di Benin-Sapele-Warri road recently and see as people dey suffer. If I do my part and you do your part, nobody go criticise our president. For us to get more votes, we gats do something about dis place, whether na federal government or Edo government, na wetin di governor talk.