The economic toll is staggering. Lagos generates $90 billion annually, yet productivity is hemorrhaged daily as workers lose hours—sometimes entire days—to traffic. The environmental cost is equally dire: with 2 million vehicles spewing fumes in a city ranked among Africa’s most polluted, the APC’s failure to shift commuters to cleaner options like rail or water transport is a public health crisis in the making. This is a government that has squandered the oil boom years, the tech boom, and every opportunity to transform Lagos into a 21st-century metropolis.
The APC’s reign has been marked by grandiose announcements—Eko Atlantic, the Fourth Mainland Bridge, the Strategic Transport Master Plan—but delivery is perpetually deferred. After 26 years, Lagosians are still trapped in a transport dystopia, a city of immense potential shackled by a ruling party that lacks the foresight, competence, and will to match its ambitions. Yesterday’s traffic was not just a bad day; it was a symbol of a deeper rot—a megacity on the brink, betrayed by its stewards. The APC must be held accountable for this disgraceful legacy of inertia. Lagos deserves a transportation revolution, not endless excuses.
FreeThinker from Pluto
