Tinubu’s Support Group Clashes with Adebanjo over Coastal Highway Project Criticism: ‘You’re Attention Seekers'”

The Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG) has criticized the former leader of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, and other members for their negative comments on the construction of the 700 km coastal highway project stretching from Lagos to eight other states.

The group’s chairman, Jesutega Onokpasa, described Adebanjo and his men as attention seekers for calling the project ‘unproductive and wasteful.’

Onokpasa, an All Progressive Congress (APC) chieftain, claimed that the position of the former Afenifere leader and his group was borne out of hatred, and not necessarily by any act of selflessness.

He further stated that the project was the kind of foresight, imagination, and actions with which President Bola Tinubu birthed the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State as governor.

The TMSG chairman said, “In a most outrageous show of shallow, unresearched, and non-analytic reasoning, these prowling urchins of evil intentions, queried the productiveness and necessity of the Coastal Road Project with disregard to the poor level of Nigeria’s infrastructural deficit.”

He added, “It is laughable to say that despite the frightening figures estimated as the country’s infrastructural deficit, a group of attention seekers (Pa Adebanjo and his men) will describe the award of a project like the Coastal Highway Project, with inherent opportunities in Tourism and Blue Economy as ‘unproductive and wasteful.'”

Onokpasa argued that the East-West Road and the Coastal Highway Project are meant to serve two different economic purposes and that the criticism by Adebanjo and his group is misplaced.

As the debate over the project’s impact on Nigeria’s economy and infrastructure continues, the clash between the support group and the former Afenifere leader highlights the ongoing political tension in the country.