Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration has made more achievements than the United States government in terms of infrastructural development.
He assured Nigerians that all ongoing road projects would be completed before Buhari leaves office.
The Minister spoke in Kano during the “APC Conversation Series” on Thursday.
The series is the ruling party’s initiative of creating awareness on its achievements in the last seven years.
Fashola, who also inspected the Kano-Katsina highway, said: “I can assure you that the present APC administration of President Buhari has achieved what even the US government is trying to do, in terms of infrastructure.
“As at December 2021, we had completed 941 kilometers of roads across all States and geopolitical zones.”
He said the Ministry is on the border between Kano and Katsina states, with work ongoing on the Katsina boundary section.
He explained that the Buhari administration has been making progress in road construction amid challenges of, in some places, dualising what was a single carriage way before, to make the road more conducive for more volume of traffic.
He said one of the challenges is that they must move the people who have set up facilities such as markets and shops, relocate electricity poles and other things and as way pay compensation as provided by the law.
