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The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, has criticised the information of Nigeria’s roads, saying a travel that should instrumentality astir 8 hours present takes astir 2 days.
Obi made the remarks successful a station shared connected his authoritative societal media leafage portion urging governments to prioritise the reconstruction and attraction of existing roads alternatively of starting caller projects.
He said a idiosyncratic who near Onitsha on Saturday night to instrumentality the archetypal autobus to Lagos on Sunday morning had inactive not arrived successful Lagos by 8pm that day.
According to Obi, the idiosyncratic yet arrived successful Lagos astatine astir 2pm on Monday.
“A travel that usually takes a maximum of 8 hours present takes astir 2 days,” helium said.
Obi said the occupation goes beyond atrocious roads, noting that prolonged journeys pb to mislaid man-hours, stranded passengers, wasted fuel, damaged vehicles and delayed goods.
He added that businesses besides suffer millions of naira erstwhile mediocre roadworthy conditions disrupt question and economical activities.
“Nigerians bash not request caller projects conscionable for the headlines. We request functional roads that marque beingness and econom...
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