{"id":67524,"date":"2025-06-07T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67524"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:16:08","slug":"afenifere-faction-calls-for-tinubus-impeachment-over-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/07\/afenifere-faction-calls-for-tinubus-impeachment-over-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Afenifere Faction Calls for Tinubu\u2019s Impeachment Over Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n

A faction of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has called on the National Assembly to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Bola Tinubu over an alleged conflict of interest in the award of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway contract.<\/p>\n

Oba Oladipo Olaitan, leader of the faction, made the call in an interview on Saturday, expressing outrage over Tinubu\u2019s recent public remarks during the inauguration of the 30-kilometre Phase 1, Section 1 of the coastal project, where he referred to the contractor, Gilbert Chagoury, as his \u201cpartner in daring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The highway project is being executed by Hitech Construction Company, a subsidiary of the Chagoury Group, which also spearheads the Eko Atlantic City real estate project developed on reclaimed land along the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

President Tinubu, during the inauguration last Saturday, praised Chagoury and the company\u2019s role in the project, describing it as \u201ca symbol of courage and commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the contractors and my partner in daring, it was tough for us\u2026 We came together to tame the Atlantic,\u201d Tinubu said.<\/p>\n

Oba Olaitan argued that the statement amounted to a blatant admission of conflict of interest, claiming that the road was awarded without public bidding and is designed to benefit Eko Atlantic City, a private development linked to the contractor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll President Tinubu is doing is building a road to his own Atlantic City. He openly said the contractor is his partner. That means he awarded a federal contract to himself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Olaitan questioned the rationale for inaugurating only a small section of the massive coastal highway, alleging that the government may abandon the rest once the portion leading to Atlantic City is complete.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy commission just four per cent of the road? That road leads straight to their private development. This is a clear conflict of interest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He called on lawmakers to take urgent action, insisting that the president\u2019s comments amounted to a breach of public trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National Assembly must prove that it is not complicit. If they are truly independent, they must act now. We cannot condone this. This is not how to run a democracy,\u201d Olaitan declared.<\/p>\n

In response, the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress dismissed the impeachment call, describing it as baseless.<\/p>\n

Speaking with our correspondent on Friday, Lagos APC spokesperson Seye Oladejo said the claims were a misinterpretation of the president\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will just regard that as a joke taken too far. Maybe they need to consult their dictionary to understand what \u2018partner\u2019 means. Did he say business partner?<\/p>\n

“He didn\u2019t say they have any incorporated firm where they both have shares,\u201d Oladejo said.<\/p>\n

He explained that the term \u201cpartner in daring\u201d simply referred to people who shared Tinubu\u2019s vision and helped pursue it, not a business relationship.<\/p>\n

Oladejo also affirmed that due process was followed in awarding the contract, stating that any concerns should be channeled through appropriate institutions, not through calls for impeachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Anifowoshe Oladipupo A faction of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has called on the National Assembly to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Bola Tinubu over an alleged conflict of interest in the award of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway contract. Oba Oladipo Olaitan, leader of the faction, made the call in an interview on Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524","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=67524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67526,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524\/revisions\/67526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}