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The billions sunk on the Kano-Maradi Road was APC's way of stealing from Nigerians. If that money was judiciously used to develop our power sector, perhaps we would be boasting of 10000 megawatt elecicity today. We now ask, what are the benefits of the Kano-Maradi Road? Even if tolled the road will not pay for the salaries of the tolling officials, let alone pay for itself.

The Lagos-Calabar coastal road of fraud is even worse. After spending Trillions on a less than 30 kilometers, we hear that it is collapsing. Now to put this in perspectives, from Lagos to Calabar is about 770 kilometers. Of that stretch, about 60% are swamps and marshy land requiring bridges.
If soft land around Lagos has cost Nigerians about $13 Billions (N20.8 Trillions), just imagine how much the over 400 kilometers bridge would cost and the remaining 340 kilometers of soft soil would cost.
If we extrapolate, using what has been spent, we are looking at about additional N800 Trillions to complete the road. Which is to assume our total annual budget (Capital & Recurrent) are solely poured into the project, it will take us 14 years and 6mths budgets to complete (assuming N55Trillion annual budget).

Now, let us consider that the N800 Trillions or $500 billion required to complete the road was judiciously poured into Power ($100 billion), Agriculture ($100 billions), Security ($100 billion),
Road and rail infrastructure ($200billion), Nigerians will never have need to japa. The agricultural sector will employ millions of youth who today are in Yahoo-Yahoo and prostitution and terrorism. The availability of power would transform Nigeria economy from consumption to production. Our decaying infrastructure would become model.

This is what APC lacks and what the likes of Peter Obi represents. Can we fix this in 4 years, my answer is Yes, all it takes is prudence and will power. Nigeria can work, and all we need is to take it back from those leeches in power.

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The billions sunk on the Kano-Maradi Road was APC's way of stealing from Nigerians. If that money was judiciously used to develop our power sector, perhaps we would be boasting of 10000 megawatt elecicity today. We now ask, what are the benefits of the Kano-Maradi Road? Even if tolled the road will not pay for the salaries of the tolling officials, let alone pay for itself.

The Lagos-Calabar coastal road of fraud is even worse. After spending Trillions on a less than 30 kilometers, we hear that it is collapsing. Now to put this in perspectives, from Lagos to Calabar is about 770 kilometers. Of that stretch, about 60% are swamps and marshy land requiring bridges.
If soft land around Lagos has cost Nigerians about $13 Billions (N20.8 Trillions), just imagine how much the over 400 kilometers bridge would cost and the remaining 340 kilometers of soft soil would cost.
If we extrapolate, using what has been spent, we are looking at about additional N800 Trillions to complete the road. Which is to assume our total annual budget (Capital & Recurrent) are solely poured into the project, it will take us 14 years and 6mths budgets to complete (assuming N55Trillion annual budget).

Now, let us consider that the N800 Trillions or $500 billion required to complete the road was judiciously poured into Power ($100 billion), Agriculture ($100 billions), Security ($100 billion),
Road and rail infrastructure ($200billion), Nigerians will never have need to japa. The agricultural sector will employ millions of youth who today are in Yahoo-Yahoo and prostitution and terrorism. The availability of power would transform Nigeria economy from consumption to production. Our decaying infrastructure would become model.

This is what APC lacks and what the likes of Peter Obi represents. Can we fix this in 4 years, my answer is Yes, all it takes is prudence and will power. Nigeria can work, and all we need is to take it back from those leeches in power.

let Obi go & secure Anambra state for the lp in the forthcoming governorship election first.

Very selfish minded man Gringory Obi.

You no dey tire of wailing?
Mtchewwwwwwwwwwwwww

Nobody is buying this 419 pitch from these desperate politicians. Did I not read somewhere that they will not reverse the subsidy removal and other policies?
So, they just want power handed over to them? Bunch of clowns.