By Lydia Ngwakwe
President Bola Tinubu has been assured of the realisation of his one trillion dollars economy target through his avowed commitment to infrastructure impact on economic growth.
The assurance came from speakers at the inauguration of the 37km Reconstructed Apapa-Oworonsoki-Ojota Expressway, Lagos and the rehabilitated Third Mainland Bridge on Sunday in Lagos.
Representing Tinubu, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said both projects were critical indications of fulfilment of the Renewed Hope Agenda for Nigerians.
He noted that the administration’s road infrastructure drive cut across the country.
He expressed delight that the reconstructed Apapa-Oworonsoki-Ojota Expressway and ongoing Lagos- Calabar Coastal Highway, would guarantee rapid economic development of Lagos State and the country in general.
The Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, described the reconstructed Apapa-Oworonsoki-Ojota Expressway as a testament of the high value cement technology.
Umahi said that the road would last 50 to 100 years, as against asphalt.
The minister, who outlined the ongoing work on Third Mainland Bridge and other bridges, pleaded with the senate president and federal legislators present to consider emergency funding of the rehabilitation of the identified bridges in Lagos.
President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said that the reconstructed 37km expressway under the Tax Credit Scheme, with the involvement of his company, had helped to transform the landscape leading to the two seaports that were most critical to the economy of the country.
Dangote stated that the infrastructural drive of the Tinubu administration was reassuring of repositioning the economy to be a trillion-dollar status in no distant future.
Other dignitaries at the event include, the Governors of Ogun, Ondo, Imo, Katsina, Yobe; Deputy Governor of Lagos State; National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC); and traditional rulers.
(NAN)
