Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar inaugurated the Total Junction Airlift in Jimeta, Yola, which is the first of its kind in the North-Eastern region of Nigeria.
Speaking at the inauguration on Saturday in Yola, Abubakar, who described the project as a great success, said the flyover would facilitate traffic, reduce accidents, add color and beauty to the capital.
He said the execution and groundbreaking of the project would serve as a lesson for the next generation of leaders for responsible leadership in the state and the country in general.
In his remarks, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa, said the inauguration was part of the activities to celebrate his two years as executive governor of the state.
“Today’s event, which is the commissioning of the first airlift at Yola, and possibly the entire northeast, is the culmination of the first phase of our commissioning series”.
“We have spent the last two weeks in this mood from the commissioning of the urban roads in Numan, Michika, Hong, Yola-Sud, Yola-Nord until the connection of Toungo to the national grid”.
“The people of Adamawa have every reason to celebrate not only the presence of physical structures, but they can see and touch as in part what we are commanding today.
“But more importantly, by reinventing trust in politicians and the fact that beyond rhetoric, campaign promises can be translated into reality,” he said.
Governor Fintiri said the project included the upper bridge and the extension of the dual carriageway access road to eight lanes from the Maidoki roundabout to the Bishop Street junction.
According to him, this is a project with a short story but an interesting one in which its planned duration of 12 months was completed in nine months.
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