Lagos State governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has expressed his dismay over the recent “drama” in which the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, gloatingly commissioned the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road that is barely five per cent done.

The road is a 700-kilometre project that is expected to take off from the shores of Lagos Island, precisely Victoria Island in the former Colony of Lagos, and continues until it terminates in Calabar.

A social media platform, Objectv Media, had countered the President’s claim of a 30-kilometre completion part of the project, saying that what the Tinubu’s administration, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and their supporters have celebrated as an achievement in the government’s two years in office is not even up to 30 kilometres as claimed.

Rhodes-Vivour, while reacting to the propaganda-borne controversy, posted a statement via his X handle yesterday, wherein he said it is not possible to commission a project that is less than five per cent and still gloat over it as having done anything spectacular.

He said: “Not only it is shameful to roll out the drums to commission less than five per cent of a project, but the administration also still lied and spew propaganda on the so-called 30 kilometres.

“This is the same way the minister of finance went abroad to reel out fake data only to be checkmated by data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) days after. It is so embarrassing.

“The harsh truth is that a party fixated on politics and propaganda cannot govern effectively. That is why Nigerians are much poorer today than they were less than a decade ago.”