Federal Govt Vows To Flag Off 1000km Sokoto-Badagry Road Abandoned Since Obasanjo’s 1976 Regime

The President Bola Tinubu-led administration has stated that the work on the 1000km Sokoto-Badagry highway project will be flagged off by next week.

Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy disclosed this during an interview on Arise Television on Thursday.

He asserted that the project was abandoned in 1976, during Olusegun Obasanjo admnistration, then as the Head of State, noting that Tinubu government was trying to revive it.

He said; “The 1000km Sokoto-Badagry highway project will be flagged off by next week. The project will open up that part of the country.

“The project was conceived in 1976, during Obasanjo regime then, but it was later abandoned. This government is trying to revive it,” he added.

The Minister of Works, Engineer Nweze David Umahi, had in July said that the project would be flagged off in Kebbi State by President Tinubu in August.

He had stressed that work on the project would commence from the 258km section in the Kebbi axis.

The minister had also noted that the route of the highway was that of the oldest trans-Sahara trade which was initiated more than 48 years ago but not implemented until the coming of President Tinubu’s administration.