{"id":66900,"date":"2025-05-30T05:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66900"},"modified":"2025-05-30T05:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:15:56","slug":"wike-applauds-tinubu-as-abuja-gets-new-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/30\/wike-applauds-tinubu-as-abuja-gets-new-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Applauds Tinubu as Abuja Gets New Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has declared that Abuja is experiencing a historic transformation under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing the capital&#8217;s development as unprecedented since its creation.<\/p>\n<p>Wike made the remarks on Thursday during a tour of ongoing infrastructure projects across the city, part of the celebrations marking the President\u2019s second year in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu\u2019s impact in the FCT over the past two years is historic. We\u2019ve never witnessed this kind of focused development before,\u201d Wike stated. \u201cThere\u2019s visible, measurable work being done across the city. And it&#8217;s not just here his footprint of performance is resonating nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister pointed to the completed left-wing service lane on the Outer Southern Expressway, linking Apo to Wassa Junction, as one of several major achievements.<\/p>\n<p>He also disclosed that streetlights would soon be installed to improve safety, with the contractor already proposing that phase.<\/p>\n<p>Among the key projects nearing completion are the N20 Interchange connecting Wole Soyinka Way to the Murtala Mohammed Expressway and the new access road linking Obafemi Awolowo Way to the Court of Appeal in Dakibiyu District.<\/p>\n<p>These projects are expected to be inaugurated during the anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were once vocal critics saying Abuja wasn\u2019t working. Today, we are the ones admitting it\u2019s finally working and that\u2019s thanks to Mr. President,\u201d Wike admitted.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed his commitment to delivering excellence in the FCT and urged residents to play their part by supporting government initiatives and upholding civic duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President believes Nigeria deserves excellence and here in the FCT, we\u2019re making sure that belief is reflected in every road, every project, and every initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The infrastructure transformation you\u2019re seeing today is just the beginning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has declared that Abuja is experiencing a historic transformation under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing the capital&#8217;s development as unprecedented since its creation. Wike made the remarks on Thursday during a tour of ongoing infrastructure projects across the city, part of the celebrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66902,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66900\/revisions\/66902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}