'Misplaced priority' - Peter Obi slams Tinubu over Lagos-Calabar highway project

Former governor of Anambra State and flagbearer of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has lambasted the Tinubu government's recently launched project that would see a highway constructed from Lagos to Cross Rivers state.

According to Obi, the money could be put to better use if its invested into the rehabilitation of terrible roads across the country.

Peter Obi opined that it makes no sense to begin another project that the present administration would not be able to see through instead of completing abandoned ones from former administrations.

He said this in a post on his X platform on Monday, April 22.

Obi cautioned that the bad roads have made it easy for kidnappers and bandits to harm innocent Nigerians who use them.

He wrote: "Why embark on another huge project that will not be completed in the next 20 or 30 years? To do so will only exacerbate the problem of abandoned, uncompleted projects that are not contributing to economic growth and overall development.

"It will merely worsen our already sagging debt burden. Given the state of our economy now, prioritization and fiscal discipline should be our critical guiding principles now."

BEB