Politics PREMIUM TIMES: How Buhari’s Airport Shuttles Foist Hardship on Abuja Residents

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President Muhammadu Buhari is no longer obeying traffic rules but blocking roads whenever he has to go through them.

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Motorists plying the Umaru Yar’Adua expressway leading to and from the city centre to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja often experience incessant hardship whenever President Muhammadu Buhari travels out of or returns to the capital city.

On every occasion that Mr. Buhari travels, the 10-lane expressway is often closed for prolonged periods before the President’s convoy eventually comes along.

During those periods, motorists trying to access the road or those already on it are made to halt their journeys.
On Wednesday morning, as Mr. Buhari travelled to Cameroun on a state visit as part of regional efforts to combat the Boko Haram sect, the traffic situation caused by the presidential movement was terrible and heart wrenching for residents and motorists.

A motorist who resides at the Federal Housing Estate in Lugbe, Oluyinka Akintunde, told PREMIUM TIMES that he set out for work at some minutes after 8 a.m. but was forced to stop, alongside hundreds of other motorists, because the road was closed to traffic.

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SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES
 
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