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From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
The senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, disclosed on Saturday that no fewer than 66 dams will be built along the Sokoto-Badagry expressway under construction by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration.
Adeola added that, when the expressway—which has a long stretch coursing through Ogun State—is fully completed, the incumbent administration would have succeeded in creating a new Nigeria and a new economy as a result of the dams.
The senator made this disclosure in his remarks at the end-of-2025 Thanksgiving Service, held at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The annual end-of-year thanksgiving service and get-together was hosted by the senator to thank God and appreciate his constituents.
Speaking further at the church event, which was attended by top government functionaries and politicians in the state, Adeola—otherwise known as Yayi—said President Tinubu’s government had, within two years, succeeded in removing the cankerworm in the country’s economy that had affected its finances over the years.
He argued that the singular act of fuel subsidy removal by the president had benefited the general population rather than the few Nigerians who were milking the nation dry in the name of subsidy.
According to him, the president is saving the country over ₦10 trillion on an annual basis by removing the subsidy on fuel.
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“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.
“With that singular action, the president is saving the country over ₦10 trillion on an annual basis.
“I used to be the Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance during the last senate and I know on a yearly basis what we went to the bank to borrow to fund the subsidy. And this was in the region of ₦6 trillion to ₦7 trillion on an annual basis,” Senator Adeola stated.
While urging Nigerians to have faith in the current administration and continue to support it, the senator—who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations—said President Tinubu’s government had embarked on a lot of infrastructural renewal capable of transforming the socioeconomic development and growth of Nigeria.
“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 and that is a new Nigeria being born.
“Also the Sokoto-Badagry expressway, a popular road of which Ogun is also 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 submitted.
