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As much as I prefer to avoid debating with people who settle for nonsense, I deem it necessary to elucidate further on our already very clear plans. As an aside, without regard to the merit or demerits thereof, the dating of the map he displays as a 2011 extract of a so-called 2008 "master plan" also reveals that it was published by Fashola, not Tinubu as has been widely claimed. I'm glad this person said that the portion of the PLANNED (but not executed) 4th mainland bridge that crosses the lagoon is 4km or 5km. This confirms our position that OUR proposed bridges do not need to break any records for length. Lagisians do not need hugely expensive vanity projects at this point. We want to keep them short, simple and easy to achieve, not for the plans to sit on the government's desk, gathering dust and deceiving voters for another 2 decades. Now, to the merits of the "master plan". The image he shows of the proposed (unbuilt) 4th Mainland Bridge does not correlate with the plans laid out on the Lagos State PPP website. The entire project is 38km long, proposed to land at Itamaga in Ikorodu. That portion of Ikorodu already suffers terrible gridlock, and the sheer weight of traffic coming from Lekki will just compound the problems already faced by residents. Essentially, what it translates to is that APC is proposing to demolish thousands of homes in Lekki and Ikorodu, just to build 33km of expensive bridge where it is not really needed, to gather traffic from all over Lekki, and dump it all in an already congested part of Ikorodu. Not very smart. We prefer to spend the huge amount that would have been used for that excess 33km to: 1. Extend the existing Ibeshe Road, which terminates at Ibeshe, along the Ikorodu Foreshore, all the way through Imota, Isiu, Agbowa, Ejinrin, all the way to Epe Marina. 2. Extend the existing Badore road, by building a small bridge across the creek there, eastwards to Oriba, along the Lekki Northern Foreshore, all the way to Oko-Orisan and on by bridge to Ita-Oko and Freedom Islands and on to the Lagos Coastal Highway. 3. Build another bridge from Epe Marina to join the Ita-Oko bridge, thus closing that circle. A plan that cannot be reviewed is not a plan. It is dogma, and dogma is expensive. We're not doing dogma over here. Building 5 or 6 more bridges into UNDEVELOPED parts of Lagos ties in with our plan to spread development across Lagos State and help with our Affordable Homes Initiative. You should know that the Jakande- built Ìlasàn Housing Estate was only possible after Alhaji Jakande built Lekki-Epe Expressway. Same for Abraham Adesanya. I understand you would not know, since it your knowledge of Lagos is clearly limited to the famished Tinubu era. If we all work together, we can Make Èkó Great Again. #VoteGRV2027 #VoteADCLagos #MEGA2027 #OurLagos