Infrastructure, especially roads, topped the litany of demands which the residents of Lekki Penninsular in Lagos made from Yemi Osinbajo and Babajide Sanwo–Olu, vice presidential and gubernatorial candidates respectively.
The residents under the aegis of Lekki Estates Residents and Stakeholders Association (LERSA) met with the candidates who are seeking election on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) at a town hall meeting Friday.
LERSA comprises about 77 identified estates stretching from 1004 estate to Epe. The whole corridor is linked by the Lekki Epe Expressway which is known chiefly for it’s choking and intractable gridlock.
The residents who complained bitterly about their daily experiences on the expressway where they spend quality man-hour on daily basis, also demanded that the toll paid on the expressway be stopped or reviewsed downwards to N5000 per car per year for the residents.
Poor drainage system which causes seasonal flooding in the area, lack of regional or alternative route, absence of public schools, health and water facilities were also in the list of demands the residents made from the candidates who, incidentally ‘are’ both residents of the area.
Sanwo-Olu assured of government intervention if elected governor of the state, pledging to construct a regional road or, possibly, a bridge that would start from Freedom Road and terminate at Ilubrin near Third Mainland Bridge to decongest the Lekki Epe Expressway
Chuka Uroko
