$20bn Loan: Atiku raises alarm over Lagos-Calabar highway reroute, challenges Tinubu

The statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC and erstwhile Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm implicit the announced rerouting of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway amid uncertainty surrounding a planned $20 cardinal loan.

Atiku spoke successful a connection connected Monday.

DAILY POST reports that the Minister of Works, David Umahi, said successful a connection that President Bola Tinubu had approved the rerouting of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway done the existing East-West Road, from Ondo State into Edo State.

This comes amid reports that the Presidency is pressuring the National Assembly to o.k. a caller $20 cardinal indebtedness successful transportation with the project.

Reacting, Atiku said Tinubu’s authorities indispensable code concerns implicit quality suggesting that a indebtedness of up to $20 cardinal was being proposed.

“Tinubu sold Nigerians a coastal highway. Now his Minister says parts of it volition travel an existing roadworthy inland. That is not a insignificant accommodation to a drawing. It strikes astatine the committedness utilized to merchantability this tremendous project. When the way changes, the...