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As consistent as this administration has been with misrepresenting the truth, its claims on 25,000km of roads has been the most daring lie ever told by a
Nigerian government in recent times.


When the Jonathan administration posted pictures
of a private Lagos residential estate as one of its
thousands of estate projects in the northeast of
Nigeria, it looked like a one-off mistake. When the
same administration posted a picture of a
Cameroonian road as one of its great works on the
transformation of Nigerian roads, it looked like
another big error. Both are unforgivable lies but they
pale in comparison to the claims of the government
that they have either renovated or built 25,000km of
roads. As consistent as this administration has
been with misrepresenting the truth, its claims on
25,000km of roads has been the most daring lie
ever told by a Nigerian government in recent times.

We need to put this in perspective. As the crow
flies, the distance between New York City in the
United States and Lagos in Nigeria is 5,277km. The
distance between New York, USA and Sydney in
Australia is 16,000km. The distance between Rio de
Janeiro in Brazil and Lagos in Nigeria is 6,000km.

How about this?- the circumference of earth at the
equator is about 40,075 km. Is the Jonathan
administration claiming that it has worked on roads
almost the distance around the earth’s equator?

The above numbers just tell the size of this
administration’s lies on roads. One was privileged to
engage in a Peugeot Across Nigeria Test Drive
from Lagos to Kaduna. The prospects of riding in
the new Peugeot 507, 3008 and 4008 were high on
why one agreed to take the journey but not as much
as a desire to see the claims of transformed roads.

Thank God for good cars, it would really have been
worse. Traveling from Lagos, the much-touted
emblem of transformation, the Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway remains incomplete and a road user’s
nightmare.

There is nothing wrong with an uncompleted road
as long as work is being advanced and the project
is not being sold as the 8th Wonder of the World
even though work on it moves at the speed of a
snail. Let us get serious, like one of the Ekiti
election riggers said in that audio, this is not a tea
party. Nigeria is serious business. It helped that
one drove in the luxurious Peugeot 507. Also, it
talks about the type of car a top government official
is likely to be driven in when using such bad roads.
Only a car with such artificial intelligence and a
seeming intuitive relationship with Nigeria’s bad
roads made the journey bearable. The undulated
roads and potholes which leave you with deciding
which one is less dangerous to drive through rather
than avoiding any altogether were balanced by the
comfort of being in a good car but how many
Nigerians have such luxuries? And even if our ‘ogas
at the top’ have such comfortable cars to be driven
in, do they not have eyes to see the bad roads?

The roads in the south are worse when compared
to those of the north but that is not to say those of
the north are faring well. It is likely to be a reflection
of the difference in usage. One travelled from Lagos
to Bauchi for the Federal Government College
(FEDCOL) Games in the year 2000, in a bus. The
roads then and now are not world’s apart. I’d
actually think road development actually stagnated
for 15 years. It is a shame, not just on the Jonathan
administration but all the administrations from that
year till date. The only difference being that the
previous administrations never claimed that they
built and renovated roads the length of travelling
from New York to Lagos in a straight line almost
five times. It is precisely 4.7 times.
Failing to do one’s job is one thing, lying about what
has not been done to say same has been done is
unacceptable. Small lies may be forgivable but a lie
like saying you have built and renovated roads the
length of over 60 per cent of the equator is a shame.

It also shows a lack of respect for your audience.
You might as well have called all Nigerians idiots
and we’d at least appreciate your directness
instead of making the same claim indirectly through
such an unforgivable lie. Subsequent governments
must learn from this. The era of that citizen who
hears all and believes all is over. This is the era of
the conscious, active citizen.
We crosscheck everything!

[size=15pt]OP, I won't blame you. You probably rarely travel out of your enclave - only God knows where that is.

Any regular traveller on our federal roads, even opposition APC got convinced our federal roads were now far better than they have never been in any time past. Did you ever hear APC use 'bad roads' as a campaign as they always did in years past??[/size]

Apply wisdom bro. He is stating facts here so bring ur facts 25000 km many oo. We nor gree chop d rice GEJ boil for us.

Goddex:
[size=15pt]OP, I won't blame you. You probably rarely travel out of your enclave - only God knows where that is.

Any regular traveller on our federal roads, even opposition APC got convinced our federal roads were now far better than they have never been in any time past. Did you ever hear APC use 'bad roads' as a campaign as they always did in years past??[/size]