The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is one of President Bola Tinubu’s best gifts to the country. He recently revealed that that the project has already started making life easier for motorists.
In a post via his official X handle, Onanuga shared his experience of travelling from Ajah in Lagos to Isaac John Street in Ikeja using a section of the newly constructed coastal road.
According to him, even though Google Maps initially projected the trip at two and a half hours, with the coastal route, it took him just 65 minutes to complete the journey.
He stated that the people who mocked the project must be hiding their faces in shame ahead of the completion of the road.
“Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is one of President Bola Tinubu’s best gifts to Nigeria. Those who have condemned this historic project will be ashamed of themselves when the Tinubu administration completes the road.
In less than 25 minutes, we arrived at the Ahmadu Bello end of the road. Except for the traffic snarl at the MRS fuel station caused by motorists queuing for Dangote petrol, the journey to Ikeja was smooth sailing,” he wrote.
Bayo further described President Tinubu as the “visioner and dreamer,” hailing the contractors employed for their quality of work.
He concluded by clarifying that the coastal road is not yet fully open to traffic construction because work is still ongoing on the Lagos segment of the road, with parts of it already in partial use.
