I didn’t say Obasanjo shouldn’t use Lagos-Calabar Highway – Umahi

Tribune Online

The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, on Saturday clarified that he never said former President Olusegun Obasanjo should not use the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway when completed.

Umahi made the clarification during an inspection tour of the highway project in Lagos.

He reacted to some comments to the effect that he said Obasanjo should not use the road for describing the highway project as wasteful.

“The point is that the former president is not only my former president, he is also my father and he is my in-law; so, I have my respect for him.

“ I never said the former president should not use the road.

“He is not the only one among the few criticising the road project.

“ I said, ‘If you say the road is not good, you have a choice to use it or not to use it.’

“That is what I said. I didn’t say the former president should not use the road,” Umahi told journalists during the inspection tour.

The minister said that the 700km road…

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