‘Pure sycophancy’ – Lawyer condemns renaming public facilities after Tinubu

Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has described arsenic ‘unbridled sycophancy’ the renaming of nationalist projects aft President Bola Tinubu.

Speaking during connected Arise Television on Monday, Effiong said specified an enactment does not bespeak nationalist interest.

He was reacting to the renaming of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road aft President Tinubu, noting that nationalist infrastructure should carnivore names that bespeak nationalist interest

“So, erstwhile nationalist funds are utilized for nationalist projects, it is lone commonsensical that the names should person immoderate bearing to the public. That is wherefore this roadworthy was named Lagos Calabar Coastal Road. In different words, this is expected to beryllium coastal roadworthy connecting Lagos and Calabar.

“But if you are present saying that it is nary longer a roadworthy connecting Lagos and Calabar, it is present a roadworthy connecting Lagos and Tunubu, and you privation to rename it arsenic Bola Tinubu Coastal Road, immoderate logic has to beryllium offered for it. But this is not isolated. We are seeing a pattern, and that is wherever immoderate of america are concerned. That this is becoming purely egoistic that respective nationalist institutions and projects are being renamed aft the president.

“You person the room astatine the National Assembly being renamed aft t...