Jonathan And Bida-Mokwa Road

Igot to know about something one evening at a Maishayi spot over here in Minna by an unintended slip as someone was relating to another the amazing fact that there exists no single pothole on that over 116- kilometre stretch of Bida-Mokwa highway.

This amazement at the fact of a situation that a sitting president (Goodluck Jonathan) could build intra-state highways during his tenure in office without blaming the opposition or his predecessors for holding him back sorely contrasts sharply with the present circumstance of President Muhammadu Buhari wanting a second term on the back of zero federal-projects-executed for Niger State.

The Minna-Suleja, Minna-Bida, Minna-Kontagora, Kontagora-Birnin Gwari roads are so bad that the fellow relating that story about that Bida-Mokwa highway was beyond caring if anyone within earshot heard him saying that it was President Goodluck Jonathan who built that road.

Naturally, I interjected to offer my perspectives on what I think a democratically-elected president of Nigeria should do for the electorate and I did not mince words when I told them that President Buhari had not visited Niger State yet since he was sworn in as president to inquire what ails the citizens of this state.

–– Sunday Adole Jonah, Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State