Of late, the debate over the accomplishments of former President, Goodluck Jonathan has been intense- between proponents of the Nigerian leader and those who believe he didn’t do what was expected of him, while in office.

Much recently, Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo said the federal government under Jonathan and his predecessor, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua ‘did not construct a single new road in the last 10 years’.

And just as is the case with every accusation made against former President Jonathan, one of his acolytes, Doyin Okupe,has sprung to his defence.

The former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to the President, took it a notch higher by listing the roads constructed by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, and his predecessors- Yar’Adua and Olusegun Obasanjo.

Writing on his Facebook page, he said: “The VP probably said this in view of the fact that based on reports made available to him almost 98% of government effort in the last decade has been devoted to roads rehabilitation.”

Okupe said that most of the road projects carried out by the last administration centered on ‘repair, rehabilitation, expansion and dualization’.

“The federal road network, going by the colonial road master plan, is about 35,000 km in length. By 2007, over 70% of these roads were completely unmotorable. No responsible government of the people will set aside 35000km of dilapidated and nonfunctional, often single lane roads, and embark on the construction of new ones.”

“Therefore the efforts of the federal government in the last 10years has been focused on the repair, rehabilitation ,expansion and dualization of most of the interstate and axial road network nationwide. Examples are Benin/ Ore, kano / Kaduna, Enugu/port Harcourt, Ibadan/Ilorin, Lokoja/abaji/Abuja, Lagos/ Ibadan to mention just a few of about 65 such road projects.”

“During the Goodluck Jonathan Administration the scale and proficiency was taken to a sublime level, with a total of 25000km of the 35000km, being completely rehabilitated. This fact was confirmed by the new minister for works Babatunde Raji at his maiden Press Conference.”

Okupe however, maintained that ‘the federal government between 2006 to 2015’ constructed 6 new roads, which he proceeded to list:

1. Loko Oweto link RD.(between Nassarawa and Benue state).
2. Musa Yaradua (Abuja airport RD)- 10 lanes .
3. Kubwa RD (Murtala Mohammed RD) 10 lanes FCT.
4. Good luck Jonathan rd. 10 lanes. FCT
5. East-West RD 346km. Started by OBJ (Olusegun Obasanjo)
in 2006. GEJ recommenced and is 90% complete.
6. Benin Byepass. (Olusegun Obasanjo)