{"id":82689,"date":"2026-02-12T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82689"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:23:57","slug":"umahi-vows-to-resign-if-abuja-kaduna-kano-road-fails-quality-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/12\/umahi-vows-to-resign-if-abuja-kaduna-kano-road-fails-quality-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Umahi Vows to Resign if Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road Fails Quality Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Works, David Umahi, on Wednesday said he would resign if the ongoing Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road project fails a quality test or is found to be substandard.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi made the pledge during his budget defence before a joint session of the National Assembly, saying he was ready for independent testing of the project.<\/p>\n<p>His comments followed concerns by lawmakers over the award of a section of the road to a company they described as relatively unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole, questioned why the contract was removed from an established construction firm and reassigned to another company not widely known for road construction.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Umahi dismissed the doubts, insisting the focus should be on performance and quality, not public perception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with the quality of work on the Abuja-Kaduna stretch, and I challenge you to an inspection. Bring the best of your concrete testers. If you test it and it fails, I will throw in the towel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Minister of Works, David Umahi, on Wednesday said he would resign if the ongoing Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road project fails a quality test or is found to be substandard. Umahi made the pledge during his budget defence before a joint session of the National Assembly, saying he was ready for independent testing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82689","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\/82689","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=82689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82691,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82689\/revisions\/82691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}