Lagos-Calabar Coastal road: Rhodes-Vivour faults Tinubu’s hasty commissioning 

Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the 2023 Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, has faulted President Bola Tinubu for what he describes as the hasty commissioning of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, which he claims is less than 5% complete.

The coastal highway, a 700-kilometre project expected to connect Lagos Island to Calabar, was recently inaugurated. However, Rhodes-Vivour resorted to his X (previously Twitter) page on Thursday to express dismay at what he dubbed a “shameful” political performance.

He stated that not only is it terrible to roll out the drums to commission less than 5% of a project, but they also had to mislead and spread propaganda about the so-called 30km.” 

Rhodes-Vivour compared the commissioning ceremony to prior instances of misrepresentation from government authorities.

“This is the same way the Minister of Finance went abroad to reel out fake data, only to be checkmated by data from the CBN days later. ‘So embarrassing,’ he added.

He further criticised the government’s handling of rising insecurity and its praise of the National Security Adviser, calling it misplaced.

“While insecurity is on the rise, they are shamelessly promoting the ‘genius’ of the NSA,” he said.

Rhodes-Vivour concluded by accusing the ruling party of being more focused on politics and propaganda than governance, asserting that: “A party fixated on politics and propaganda cannot govern effectively. That is why Nigerians are much poorer today than they were less than a decade ago.”