Nigerians lament as Abuja-Kaduna gridlock leaves travellers stranded ahead of Eid

Thousands of travellers heading to bluish Nigeria for the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations person remained stranded for hours on the Abuja–Kaduna Highway pursuing a terrible gridlock that has persisted since Monday.

The congestion, which affected some backstage and commercialized vehicles, was blamed connected accrued festive traffic, ongoing roadworthy construction, and dense rainfall on the corridor.

Many commuters narrated harrowing experiences arsenic journeys that usually instrumentality little than 3 hours stretched into an all-day ordeal.

“Flight from Kano to Lagos is astir fractional a cardinal naira, which I can’t afford. I decided to question by road, and this is wherever I ended up, spending much than six hours,” said Muhammad Musa, 1 of the stranded travellers.

Another commuter, Kabiru Abdullahi, lamented the dilatory question of vehicles, saying: “Since yesterday, we person been connected the roadworthy from Abuja to Kano, and we person not adjacent reached Jere due to the fact that of the dense postulation gridlock.”

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