Lagos 2019: Sanwo-Olu reveals plans to work with Ogun govt. to resolve border roads

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has revealed his plans to resolve the challenge of gridlocks and bad border roads that are common in Lagos if elected Governor in the 2019 elections.

Sanwo-Olu said this on Wednesday while speaking on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily.

“I have come up with five levels of plans called the five pillars. The first one is traffic management and transportation; we are going to be heavy on that. I have done a study in the last six weeks, people have complained a lot about traffic management,” he said.

“We have identified a lot of gridlocks that we are going to be solving. Some are very easy to solve while some are very humongous. We will put in structures as little as reducing roundabout, putting traffic lights, to difficult measures as physically taking away somethings that are impeding traffic.

“Traffic and transportation is one of the pillars, the next one is what we call environment and health.”

He also stated his desire to collaborate with the state government of Ogun in repairing boarders that connect the two states.

He said, “One of the major plans we have is the Lagos-Badagry express road which is not just an intercity because it cuts across Agbara and towards the Seme-border. It is also a West-African transnational road. The road is such an important corridor that we are going to fix.

“Regarding all other state border roads, it is for us to have collaboration with Ogun State government and say let us look at the budget, this road 5km goes into your own state, 7km goes into my own state, let’s check the numbers, what are the trade-offs? Who has the comparative advantage? Who is collecting revenues on these corridors? I might be a bigger brother because I probably have a bigger budget. So, we deal with it and solve it.”

Watch the interview below: