'Seun Ibukun-Oni, Abuja
DAILY COURIER - A prominent support group named Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG), has bemoaned former PDP flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar and former LP flagbearer, Peter Obi adversarial stand on the planned coastal highway.
The chairman TMSG, Bar. Jesutega Onokpasa during a press conference today in Abuja said playing politics with an important infrastructural project by both leaders is deplorable.
"We find the take of both Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi on the project to be most deplorable to say the least.
"While they have been playing politics with a project of exceedingly great importance to many of our countrymen and women, they have taken their political rascality to a most absurd extent on this matter of the Coastal Road" Onokpasa said.
Disappointed by Abubakar's allegation that the President's son, Seyi Tinubu sits on the board of the company executing the project, he said:
"Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has even gone to the extent of attacking family members of our President over the laudable project.
"Have we sunk so low that after attacking one another we start targeting each others children?
"Is that the stage we have reduced ourselves to in politics in this country?
"We start insulting each others wives and disparaging each others children?
"Good God!
"Seyi Tinubu is my son; how can I love the father without loving the son?
"That's fake love.
"So when you see me, you smile but when you see my child you frown or scowl or you look left and right and if there's no one looking you will harm my child?
"You're a coward - you come and face me as a man; you don't attack my children.
"Atiku Abubakar's desperation is clearly beyond all norms of acceptable behaviour and just as his unachievable ambition is a complete waste of time."
Onokpasa reiterated that the coastal highway is dear to Nigerians from South South and the litoral states, insisting that anyone who executives it will become a friend of Niger Deltans.
"The Coastal Road is something most dear to the hearts of those of us who come from the litoral states of this country and we consider it a very big insult for the likes of Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to oppose a project that ought to have been undertaken a long time ago that President Tinubu has decided to undertake as one of his core legacy projects."
Speaking further, he said: "Any one against the Coastal Road is against the people of the Niger Delta and the South-west - indeed any such person is against our entire nation because the Coastal Road will end up tremendously benefiting our entire nation.
"This insanity of playing politics with everything must stop forthwith and must no longer be tolerated."
