Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has said the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has replied the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, David Mark, over his comment on road projects in Nigeria.
Umahi commended Wike for replying Mark’s recent criticisms of road infrastructure across the country.
Mark, a former Senate President, had questioned Tinubu’s drive for road construction amid the hardship in the country, asking if Nigerians would eat the roads.
Reacting, Wike had reminded Mark of how bad the road from Abuja to Otukpo, his home town, was while he was Senate President eight years.
Speaking during the launch of the construction of Akwanga-Jos Super Highway on Wednesday, Umahi noted that road infrastructure is the new Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of Nigeria.
Umahi said: “I want to thank the factional chairman of ADC, my name sake, David Mark. He was going to say that Tinubu has done very well in infrastructure, he was going to say that but my brother Wike has replied him.
“Because he damaged his sincerity by saying ‘is it road that we will chop?’
“The infrastructure road is the GDP that grows every other GDP, when a road is cut, it’s like the person is in prison because when you can’t go from one point to the other then you are in prison. Look at what the President is doing from one distance to the other. Nasarawa is very close to Ebonyi, when Ebonyi is very close to Cross River, when Cross River is close to Sokoto that is the GDP that we are looking at.”
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