Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has expressed serious concern over why the Lagos ports are being congested, despite the fact that many other deep seaports across the country are lying idle.
In a post on his social media handles which were sighted by Africa Today News, New York on Thursday, Obi pointed out that the congestion of the Lagos ports had created avoidable bottlenecks in the maritime sector when it comes to imports and exports.
‘The Nigeria maritime sector is robust and ought to grow stronger. We are blessed with several deep seaports. However, for some inexplicable reason, we tend to cluster our import and export activities around the Lagos ports, thus creating avoidable bottlenecks,’ he said.
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The former Anambra governor, in his recommendation, said, ‘We should decongest Lagos ports via a deliberate policy of incentivizing end-destination priorities.’
This, according to him, would ‘curtail on-land heavy haulage transshipments that take a toll on our road infrastructure.’
Obi has continued to maintain that Nigeria’s problems are not too difficult to solve as always stated.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Obi is presently in the eye of the storm after the Governor of his home State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo declared that he is only playing games and will not win the 2023 presidential election.
Soludo made this known on Monday in an article titled, ‘History Beckons And I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1)’ in response to the backlash arising from his comment on the LP presidential candidate during a TV show last week.
He said Obi was ony playing games, which the LP presidential candidate knew that they knew about it.
The Governor’s comments is presently generating reactions on social media.