Presidency counters Donald Duke’s claim, says Lagos-Calabar Highway has reached Ogun

President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Sunday Dare, has dismissed claims by the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, presidential candidate, Donald Duke, that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway won’t go beyond Lagos State, stressing that he just talks for talking sake or because of bad politics.

Duke had said the Nigerian government cannot afford the project, insisting that it won’t go anywhere.

Stressing that the project was ‘unnecessary,’ the former governor of Cross River State said the current administration should focus on investing in electricity and healthcare, rather than coastal highway projects.

Reacting, Dare said contrary to Duke’s comment, the project has gotten to Ogun State and work is ongoing at the Ondo and Akwa-Ibom states end.

Posting on X, Dare wrote: “Former Governor Donald Duke who wants to become President on the banner of an unviable political platform has also joined the chorus of those saying the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will not go beyond the Lagos State.

“I think politics makes a lot of people say loads of what they don’t mean or believe in. They just talk for the sake of talking or because of bad politics. There is actually no sense in arguing against reality.

“While Duke was talking on TV that the Coastal Highway won’t go beyond Epe, the project has reached Ogun State, and work is going on on the Ondo and Akwa-Ibom states sections of the Coastal road.”