Rhodes-Vivour slams Tinubu over hasty commissioning of Lagos-Calabar coaster road
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
Reacting to the propaganda-borne controversy, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour posted a statement via his X handle on Thursday, wherein he said it is not possible to commission a project that is less than 5 percent and still gloat over it as having done anything spectacular.
Lagos State Governorship Candidate of Labour Party (LP) 2023, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has expressed his dismay over recent “drama” in which the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu gloatingly commissioned a coastal road that is barely 5 percent done.
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road is a 700 kilometers project that is expected to take off from the shores of the Lagos Island, precisely Victoria Island in former Colony of Lagos, and continues to go until it terminates in Calabar, South South Nigeria.
The DEFENDER reports that Objectv Media, a social media platform, had countered the president’s claim of 30-kilometre completion of the projection, saying what the Tinubu administration, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and their supporters have celebrated as an achievement in the government’s two years in office is not even up to 30 kilometers claimed.
Reacting to the propaganda-borne controversy, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour posted a statement via his X handle on Thursday, wherein he said it is not possible to commission a project that is less than 5 percent and still gloat over it as having done anything spectacular.
Rhodes-Vivour said, “Not only is shameful to roll out the drums to commission less than 5% of a project, they still had to lie and spew propaganda on 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,” he said.
