Former federal lawmaker, Ben Murray-Bruce, has challenged the Peoples Redemption Birthday celebration, PRP, 2027 presidential candidate, Donald Duke, for describing the continuing Lagos-Calabar coastal highway venture as unbuildable.
DAILY POST studies that Duke, a former governor of Go River State, made the commentary all through an interview, arguing that the swampy terrain in Bayelsa State would pose vital demanding situations to the development of the proposed freeway.
In keeping with him, the venture will require the development of a lot of bridges to navigate the swampy spaces.
“The Lagos-Calabar Street is unbuildable. You can’t even undergo Bayelsa. Bayelsa is a swamp. Even Yenagoa, the capital, is a swamp.
“You’re going to most definitely need to construct about 100 or 200 bridges to move via the ones swamps,” the previous governor mentioned.
Alternatively, reacting in a publish on his professional X care for on Friday, Murray-Bruce shared {a photograph} which he claimed confirmed Duke praising the coastal highway imaginative and prescient whilst they stood in combination at the beach.
The previous senator’s publish challenged Duke’s present place at the feasibility of the venture.
He wrote, “Some years in the past, you and I travelled alongside the stretch of the beach the place this highway now runs, and I obviously be mindful your reward for the imaginative and prescient in the back of it. For this reason your contemporary feedback stunned me.
“Sure, the Coastal Freeway is pricey. We agree on that. However not anything of lasting worth on this global is affordable or loose. Nice international locations are constructed through leaders keen to make daring, pricey investments that may serve generations but unborn.
“Mr. President dedicated to investment this venture, and he’s protecting that dedication. There’s no investment shortfall. The paintings is progressing, and the standard of development is 2d to none.
“When Governor Douye Diri recommended the street, he was once no longer talking as a neighborhood champion; he was once talking as a statesman who recognises infrastructure of global same old when he sees it. I trust him totally.
“Donald, I take into account that you might be operating for president, and that your observation is political. That’s the nature of the season, and I admire your proper to make your case to Nigerians. However we should watch out by no means to undermine a venture of nationwide significance, or the President turning in it, merely for political merit.
“When mankind went to the moon, it was once neither reasonable nor loose. But it surely was once essential. So is that this highway”.