The Lagos State Government, on Friday, backtracked on its earlier decision to close some roads ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari campaign in the state on Saturday.
In a press statement signed by the chief press secretary, Habib Aruna, the State’s Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Ladi Lawanson said the earlier statement announcing diversion and road closure had been reviewed, adding that residents were now free to go about their businesses.
Lawanson, who is also a member of the transport sub-committee for the presidential visit and the APC rally, said Lagosians should jettison an earlier announcement by the committee to the effect that there would be road closures.
He said, “Lagosians have been very apprehensive that there will be traffic gridlock and we got a lot of feedbacks that we intend to grind Lagos to a halt. People are apprehensive; they think we are going to shut down Lagos; they think movement would be restricted and they are bracing themselves for what they anticipate would be the hardship that would be visited on them by the president’s visit and our own activities. Read more