…Says Tinubu creating new Nigeria, economy

From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta

The Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, yesterday, disclosed that 66 dams would be constructed along the Sokoto-Badagry Expressway under the renewed hope project embarked upon by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Adeola expressed optimism that a successful completion of the expressway would create a new Nigeria and a robust economy.  He made the remark at the end of the 2025 Thanksgiving Service held at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Speaking further at the church event, which had in attendance top government functionaries and politicians in the state, Adeola said President Tinubu’s government had within two years succeeded in removing cankerworm affecting the country’s finances.

His words: “A lot of infrastructural renewal is currently going on across the country. The president is creating a new Nigeria. The Lagos-Calabar Expressway will cut across 10 or 15 states. That means a new Nigeria is being born.

“Also, the Sokoto-Badagry Expressway, a popular road which Ogun is also as a beneficiary is ongoing steadily. Along that road alone, we have a total of 66 dams. When that road is fully completed, the president would have succeeded in creating a new Nigeria and a new economy for our country as a result of these 66 dams across the highway.”

He noted that the fuel subsidy had benefited the populace rather than a few individuals who were milking the country dry. “I am a living testimony to what the president has done. Within his two years of assumption of office, he succeeded in removing the cankerworm in our economy that has affected our finances over the years. That is the fuel subsidy that has benefited very few Nigerians at the detriment of the overall population of this nation,” he added.