Lagos-Calabar Highway won’t go anywhere, Nigeria can’t afford it – Donald Duke

The Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, statesmanlike candidate, Donald Duke, has said that the Nigerian authorities cannot spend the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, noting that it won’t spell anywhere.

Featuring successful an interrogation connected Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ on Tuesday, Duke argued against ‘unnecessary’ projects.

He suggested that the Nigerian authorities should alternatively prioritize investing successful indispensable services similar energy and healthcare.

“Nigeria cannot spend the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. I don’t deliberation the roadworthy volition spell beyond Epe.

“And I deliberation the roadworthy serves different purposes due to the fact that I drove erstwhile connected the road, and each I saw was onshore reclamation and each that.

“There is already a roadworthy from Lagos to Calabar. I’ve driven from Lagos to Calabar respective times. If the roadworthy is poor, hole it.

“There are immoderate expenditures we marque that bash not bespeak the realities of our circumstances.

“The magnitude spent connected that roadworthy could beryllium amended spent providing energy oregon upgrading the healthcare system.

“Last year, I deliberation the superior fund that was released for wellness was hardly 36 cardinal naira, and this came from the curate himself.

“That’s pathetic for a state of 230 cardinal people. Not to speech of the schooling strategy that is ha...