Adedayo Akinwale
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Legacy Awareness and Campaign, a voluntary think-tank group of the ruling party, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is determined to set new standards in upgrading national infrastructure.
The group made the declaration in a statement that was issued yesterday and jointly signed by the Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Dr. Salihu Lukman, the Youth Leader of the APC, Mr. Ismail Ahmed, the former Secretary of the APC, Mr. Lanre Issa-Onilu and a Presidential Aide, Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi.
The group noted that projects Nigerians have looked forward to in decades would be completed and commissioned between now and May 29, 2023, when Buhari’s second and final term in office would come to an end.
The group noted that the high rate of abandoned or slow-moving road projects across the country prompted the present administration to increase the amount of funding available for road projects
It noted the Buhari’s administration has devoted more resources to road and transport infrastructure than any other administration since 1999.
It said: “In the area of roads and bridges, work has since resumed on several stalled, abandoned or solution-defying road projects that were inherited, like the Loko-Oweto Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Sagamu-Benin Expressway, the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, Kano-Maiduguri Expressway, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Expressway, Obajana-Kabba Road, Ilorin-Jebba Road, Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonshoki Road.
“A brand new bridge in Ikom, Cross River State, has just been completed to replace a dilapidated steel truss bridge originally built five decades ago and a new border bridge linking Nigeria and Cameroon, in the spirit of regional integration.”
