2027: South-South votes at risk over Coastal Highway diversion, IYC tells Tinubu

The Ijaw Youth Council IYC) has warned against the diversion of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, stating that President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress APC) would lose massive votes in the January 16 2027 presidential election if the original plan of the project is abandoned.
The President of the IYC, Dr Doubra Okotete Worldwide, in a press conference he addressed at Ijaw House in Yenagoa on Thursday, noted that the governors of Delta, Sheriff Oborevwori, Bayelsa, Senator Douye Diri and Rivers, Siminalayi Fubara, only defected to the APC because of the promise of such a people-oriented legacy project.
According to him, the excuse of financial constraints and difficulty...