NewStats: 3,259,652 , 8,170,649 topics. Date: Sunday, 25 May 2025 at 06:12 PM 6e725p

On Tuesday the 15th, my journey from Onitsha in Anambra State to Anyigba in Kogi State by road once again underscored my consistent appeal for all tiers of government to prioritize the repair and completion of existing road infrastructure, rather than launching new projects that may not be completed anytime soon, further adding to the growing list of abandoned projects scattered all over the country.

The journey, which should normally take around three and a half hours, took us over seven hours. The route through Obollo Afor, Otukpa Branch, Ejule, and Anyigba was exhausting. On the return trip, we took an alternate route via Ogugu and Enugu-Ezike, departing Kogi State around 2:00 p.m. and not arriving back until about 9:00 p.m. – all for a meeting that lasted just 30 minutes.

This is my travel experience across the country this year. In the first quarter, I had cause to travel from Calabar to Uyo, a trip that should take about an hour, but it ended up taking four hours. I travelled from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa, thinking I would use the East-West Road to Warri, but it became a treacherous journey. Warri to Benin was a similar experience.

In August, I travelled from Abuja to Kaduna, where I spent over two hours on the Kaduna by alone.

The Onitsha to Benin route was no different.

My recent trip from Benin to Auchi and back was excruciating, and one cannot help but wonder. I know these things cannot be fixed overnight, but my appeal is that there should be total commitment to alleviating the suffering of the Nigerian travelling public, rather than launching new projects.

The resources should be directed toward improving the existing roads and easing the burden on commuters. -PO

Peter Obi

Only PETER GREGORY OBI, in collaboration with GOD ALMIGHTY can transform Nigeria.
Tinubu a.k.a Tpain has caused me ulcer due to HUNGER. I've never cried for hunger before until lately.

Meanwhile Nigeria is wasting trillions constructing coastal road to nowhere.

To be very candid, this Nigeria will not work in all sincerity. A new Nigeria is what we want .

Isn't this the most commonsensical thing to do?
But no they won't, they'll rather embark on constructing a coastal highway to fraud, that will never be completed, till thy kingdom come.

Obi is just making effort in futility.

chevrolet60:
Only Peter Obi in collaboration with God almighty can transform Nigeria.

You dey play.

Only Peter Obi can solve Nigeria Issues, because he relate with the common man mostly and he understands their pains. He uses our road mostly more than any politician. Obi will fix Nigeria.

Half half projects everywhere.

Good point.from Obi, but we also need to fix and expand the railways .

That's the best way we can reduce the load on the roads.

The mess in Nigeria is so compounding and complex. Even Peter Obi cannot make a scratch of it.


Even if we decide now to deliberately begin to build Nigeria, it will take up-to half a century to begin to see the results. Why because every sector is dead — from health care to education, transportation, housing, energy (including electricity, PMS, diseal, etc) pipe born water.


Every sector in Nigeria is rotten and stink to high heaven.


Unfortunately, Nigeria is still slumbering and not ready.


Joke apart, Nigeria is truly the definition of the African proverb "A fool at 40 is a fool forever."

Warning shots fired

Ojiofor:
Meanwhile Nigeria is wasting trillions constructing coastal road to nowhere.

wen Jonathan was d president did he do anything

How would they loot big money if they don't award bogus jumbo contracts?

At least he uses a convoy. Just saying

Emilo kan abandoned existing roads that are in a bad state all in the name of building a coastal road that will take centuries to complete.

How many kilometres of road did Obi service in Anambra state?

Abi no be the roads Soludo dey pave in his state?

Everybody out of power is a James Bond.

chevrolet60:
Only Peter Obi in collaboration with God almighty can transform Nigeria.

Anambra state would have been better than it is. I recalled he was a governor for 8 years. Why did subsequent governors inherit abandoned projects from him and why did he start new projects when he also inherited abandoned projects by his predecessor .

Talk is cheap

This idiot still dey talk?

chevrolet60:
Only Peter Obi in collaboration with God almighty can transform Nigeria.

Yea right.
The way he transformed Anambra State before handing over to his Fidelity Bank boy, who quickly made the politically naive olodo a destitute politician jumping from APGA to PDP and now in the communist LP labourers camp.

chuksikem:
Was in awka some days back ,its really shameful, my heart bleeds for my state, from amansea to awka is still the same, pothole riddled roads, non-functioning street lights, refuse littering the entire state capital from arroma junction down to Ziks avenue, ,arthur eze,unizik junction,court road,udoka housing estate etc are still the same, no changes at all, the state capital still looks like a glorified village,

Civil servants and pensioners are been owed 3 MONTHS salary, so many abandoned projects yet the woman sounding governor is always in abuja 24/7.

Please peter obi's handlers on nl should please enlighten us,

A state that has the highest number of successful human beings in the entire black nation, it hurts,

Wish soludo had won ,

newsbook:
Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.

Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.

Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.

Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano istration at the end of his tenure.

But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.

He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.

Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.

These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.

The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never ed for by the former governor.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2017/10/19/peter-obi-demanded-n7-5bn-sponsoring-election%E2%80%8E-obiano-insists/amp/

jaksmillioniar:
wen Jonathan was d president did he do anything

Why bring Jonathan up here? So tinubu should not do anything because Jonathan did nothing, or what?

Golan007:
How many kilometres of road did Obi service in Anambra state?

Abi no be the roads Soludo dey pave in his state?

Everybody out of power is a James Bond.

Zombie why are you attacking the messenger with an empty stomach 🙄🙄

Dem swear for you

jaksmillioniar:
wen Jonathan was d president did he do anything

He didn't do anything.

What was he supposed to do that he didn't do?

Is the Jonathan the immediate past president?

If Jonathan did not do anything about these roads, why didn't his successor do something?

idamokoemmanuel:
Only Peter Obi can solve Nigeria Issues, because he relate with the common man mostly and he understands their pains. He uses our road mostly more than any politician. Obi will fix Nigeria.

The same way he related with Anambra people for 8 years without good roads and 1 year strike action by doctors that led to death of so many patients

Check his governorship record and get back to us. VERY TERRIBLE 8 YEARS RECORD OF AGONY

DamnnNiggarr:


Peter Obi

I' m waiting to see Reno Omockery response on this, as i have noticed in recent time that whenever Obi speaks he must respond.

chevrolet60:
Only Peter Obi in collaboration with God almighty can transform Nigeria.

So he wasn't doing collabo with God when he was governor of his ancestral home state of Anambra .

Golan007:
How many kilometres of road did Obi service in Anambra state?

Abi no be the roads Soludo dey pave in his state?

Everybody out of power is a James Bond.

I don't know how many km of road obi did or didn't do.

But is the message he is ing across not valid?

Did Soludo take over from obi?

Golan007:
How many kilometres of road did Obi service in Anambra state?

Abi no be the roads Soludo dey pave in his state?

Everybody out of power is a James Bond.

The only way you can keep roads anywhere well maintained is by tolling them

And the big reason why the government of Nigeria at state and federal level do not toll the roads is because people will cry poverty.

The few tolled roads we have in Nigeria are well maintained

Why does a man who claims to be smart and to have the solutions to the allocation and d prioritization of our national resources travel 3hrs for a meeting of 30minutes in this day and age of technology and ends up spending 7hrs? That is a man who does not know how to allocate and prioritize resources including time. Is it that he does not know how traveling on our roads are like and this is a possibility?

People won’t ask these essential questions instead they will believe the noise from a man who has nothing to show for his 8 years in charge of a state.