By Lanre Oluyede
Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has taken the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu – led All Progressives Congress administration to the cleaners over what it termed deplorable state of roads and other essential infrastructure across the country.
This was contained in a statement by the Chairman Media Committee of CUPP, Barr. Chukwudi Ezeobika.
According to the statement, Barr Ezeobika condemned the alleged endorsement of the APC-led government in the areas of Infrastructure, particularly Abuja – Lokoja – Benin roads which he said are in a very deplorable state at the moment.
The Coalition stated emphatically that it neither authorised nor sanctioned the inspection of such road networks as claimed nor authorised the publication of the purported road inspection as seen and erroneously published in various news outlets.
According to the former National Legal Adviser of Inter Party Advisory Council of Nigeria (IPAC), the Coalition is deeply concerned with theacute and deplorable state of basic road infrastructure across the length and breadth of the federation.
The statement reads: “The failure of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu – led APC government to provide Nigerians with good road and rail infrastructure clearly confirms the ineptitude and or incompetence of the current administration completely devoid of vision and purpose.
“This failure of the current administration to provide this much needed infrastructure has resulted in the deaths, destruction and kidnappings of thousands of Nigerians on Nigerian roads as bandits, kidnappers and criminals take undue advantage of this to perfect and execute their criminal acts on most of our highways.
“With huge and uncontrolled external borrowings by the current administration and lack of visible improvement in basic infrastructures in the various sectors of the Nigerian economy especially with regards to roads, health, education, electricity and security, the Coalition remains of a strong view that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu – led APC government remains the worst democratic government the country has ever had since returning to the democratic rule in 1999.”
