A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osita Chidoka, has asked President Bola Tinubu to suspend the controversial Lagos-Calabar coastal road project and subject it to further public conversations.
Chidoka, who was a former Aviation minister, said the government should rather improve Nigeria’s inland waterways and build small seaports across the coastal areas to move goods from one coastal city to another by ship. He stated this Thursday night when he was featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today and was asked what he would do about the project if he was the President considering the controversy it has generated, to which he replied that he would stop it.
“If what the minister said is correct, then there is an absolute breach because the first thing that would have happened is that ICRC would have received this, the second thing is that even with the designs done by them and the desire to be able to get funding, neither the IFC, World Bank, European Bank, African Development Bank would fund a project that doesn’t go through competitive bidding.
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