MON JUNE 17 2024-theGBJournal| The Federal Government has denied reports that the Murtala Muhammed Expressed Way in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has been renamed as Wole Soyinka Way.
”The renaming of the Murtala Muhammed Expressway Way has never been contemplated by this administration,” FG insisted in a statement released to by the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Rabiu Ibrahim.
The Federal Government said in the statement that ”it is the Arterial Road N20 that is named after Prof Soyinka. The Murtala Muhammed Expressway remains unchanged and continues to bear the name of our esteemed former Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed,” adding that the report is ”entirely false and only exists in the imagination of its purveyors.”
Recall that on June 4, 2024, President Bola Tinubu inaugurated a new road in the FCT codenamed Arterial Road N20 (from Katampe to Jahi), which links the existing Outer Northern Expressway (also known as Murtala Mohammed Expressway) to the Northern Parkway (also called Ahmadu Bello Way).
During the inauguration of the N20 (which is a new road), FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, proposed to the President that the road be named after Prof Wole Soyinka, and the President agreed.
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