The former president Goodluck Jonathan has commissioned a flyover bridge in Yenagoa that is yet-to-be finished and, according to Sahara Reporters’ findings, has defects.
Jonathan is currently participating in the rallies the PDP organises in his home state, Bayelsa, supporting the PDP governorship candidate and current governor Seriake Dickson.
According to an engineer who was present at the ribbon-cutting ceremony and spoke to Sahara Reporters, governor Dickson prevented Jonathan from walking across the bridge: “They [members of Dickson’s administration] did not want him to see the major cracks in the bridge”.
The engineer maintained that had Jonathan been informed in advance of the true current state of the bridge in question, he would not have agreed to participate in the ceremony.
Another Yenagoa resident called the structure a “monkey bridge”.
While Jonathan praised the project, saying it would boost the landscape of his home state, and Governor Dickson called the flyover first-of-its-kind in Bayelsa State, the opposition and portion of locals are criticising the bridge, suspecting it to be a waste of funds and have no economic value to the state.
Representatives of the Julius Berger Nigeria construction company responsible for the bridge were not present at the ceremony.
See the photos of the ceremony and the allegedly defective bridge below.From left to right: former President Goodluck Jonathan; Bayelsa state governor Seriake Dickson; acting PDP national chairman Prince Uche Secondus;Delta state governor Ifeanyi Okowa cutting the tape to commission the Restoration flyover bridge in Yenagoa
PDP’s Seriake Dickson and APC’s Timipre Sylva are considered to be the main contenders of the upcoming December 5 Bayelsa governorship election.
Naij.com
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