Obi to Tinubu: Suspend new roads, fix existing ones first

The 2027 presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress, Peter Obi, has criticised the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government’s road infrastructure policy, urging it to suspend the construction of new roads and prioritise the rehabilitation of existing highways across the country.
Obi argued that the country’s scarce resources should be channelled towards fixing strategic roads that have fallen into disrepair rather than embarking on new construction and dualisation projects that, in his view, offer limited immediate benefits.
In an X post titled “My Stance on Road Development”, on Monday, the 2023 presidential candidate of the troubled Labour Party said Nigeria’s ex...