Umahi meets Tinubu, speaks on latest controversy around Lagos-Calabar highway
The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has dismissed reports that the federal government is abandoning the 750-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway in favour of the East-West Road, insisting the coastal project remains intact.
The minister’s clarification followed reports that Mr Tinubu directed the coastal highway to pass through the existing East-West Road from Ondo into Edo State, rather than follow an entirely new alignment along that stretch.
Former Vice-President and African Democratic Congress Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, asked the federal government on Monday to publish the coastal highway’s contract documents, payment records, route maps, bills of quantities and any proposed borrowing arrangements related to the project.
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