Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has said the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has replied the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, David Mark, over his comment on road projects in Nigeria.
Umahi commended Wike for replying Mark’s recent criticisms
of road infrastructure across the country.
Mark, a former Senate President, had questioned Tinubu’s
drive for road construction amid the hardship in the country, asking if
Nigerians would eat the roads.
Reacting, Wike had reminded Mark of how bad the road from
Abuja to Otukpo, his hometown, was while he was Senate President eight years.
Speaking during the launch of the construction of
Akwanga-Jos Super Highway on Wednesday, Umahi noted that road infrastructure is
the new Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of Nigeria.
Umahi said: “I want to thank the factional chairman of ADC,
my namesake, David Mark. He was going to say that Tinubu has done very well in
infrastructure, he was going to say that but my brother Wike has replied him.
“Because he damaged his sincerity by saying ‘is it road that
we will chop?’
“The infrastructure road is the GDP that grows every other GDP. When a road is cut, it’s like the person is in prison because when you
can’t go from one point to the other, then you are in prison. Look at what the
President is doing from one distance to the other. Nasarawa is very close to
Ebonyi, when Ebonyi is very close to Cross River, when Cross River is close to
Sokoto, that is the GDP that we are looking at.”
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