Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress presidential candidate, has promised to rename highways, public institutions, and other national assets after President Bola Tinubu and other prominent personalities if elected in 2027.
Sowore made the announcement in a Facebook post on Friday, responding to the federal government’s plan to rename the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway after Tinubu.
He wrote, “The naming of highways, national institutions, and public assets after officials of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu regime that impoverished Nigeria and those who enabled its decline will be reversed as a matter of urgency under a #Sowore2027 administration.”
His reaction came after the minister of works, David Umahi, announced that the federal government had renamed the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway.
Umahi made the announcement on Thursday during a media briefing in Abuja, where he said the decision was taken in recognition of Tinubu’s long-standing vision for the project.
According to Umahi, the Ministry of Works approved the renaming after consultations with the ministry’s leadership.
“That (coastal) highway is named President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway. By the powers conferred on me as minister of works, in consultation with my permanent secretary, the minister of state, directors, and staff of the ministry, we decided to name it after him because of his dream for it.
“He had that dream about 27 years back as governor of Lagos State. It is one thing to dream and another thing to have the grace of God to actualize that dream,” Umahi had said.
The minister also disclosed that Tinubu approved a 400-kilometer extension of the Fourth Legacy Highway, bringing the project from 700 kilometers to 1,100 kilometers, alongside the reconstruction of sections of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and other major road projects.
Sowore recently pledged to abolish the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and scrap the National Youth Service Corps in their current forms if elected president.
He stated that tertiary institutions should conduct their own admissions under a transparent, merit-based system, while the NYSC should be replaced with a voluntary two-year National Job Corps focused on employment, entrepreneurship, and practical skills.
