The Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG) has hit out at Afenifere leader Ayo Adebanjo over his criticism of the 700-kilometre coastal
The highway will stretch from Lagos State to the Rivers state when completed.
Led by Mr. Jesutega Onokpasa, the group wondered by Adebanjo described the project which would harness and service tourism, and the blue economic investment opportunities of the entire coastal axis of Igbokoda in Ondo State to Warri and the other coastal towns of the Niger Delta region, and Port-Harcourt as wasteful and unproductive.
TMSG described the criticism by Adebanjo as ill-informed and in bad faith, adding that it was borne out of hatred and not necessarily by any act of altruism.
“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,” the group said in a statement.
“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.
“The trio of Gboyega Adejumo, Prince Faloke and Pa Ayo Adebanjo should know that the East-West Road and the Coastal Highway Project are meant to serve two different economic purposes.
“While the former is to serve the economies of Lagos, Shagamu, Ore, Benin, Warri, Ugelli, Aba, and Port Harcourt, the latter is intended to harness and service tourism, and the blue economic investment opportunities of the entire coastal axis of Igbokoda in Ondo State to Warri and the other coastal towns of the Niger Delta region, and Port-Harcourt.
“This is indeed, the kind of foresight, imagination and actions with which President Tinubu birthed the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State as governor.”(Guardian)
