A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Kogi State, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, has promised to build a modern city on the Lokoja waterfront, if he is elected.
The new city will be called “Confluence City”, Adinoyi-Ojo said.
Speaking in Lagos at the weekend at a meeting with some business men and women from Kogi, the aspirant unveiled a plan, entitled: Re-inventing Kogi State, to develop a beach resort at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue.
He said: “Kogi State is suitably positioned on the banks of Rivers Niger and Benue which both form a confluence at Lokoja. On both sides of the two rivers, it boasts of over 300square kilometers of water front. In one particular portion of Lokoja, there is available for reclamation and development, land in the neighbourhood of about 12square kilometers.
“Already, the Lower River Niger has been dredged and a river port is being built in Lokoja and a jetty proposed for Idah. Besides the Federal Government efforts at re-launching Inland Water Transport System in Nigeria, waterfront activities are still basically a virgin economic terrain. My administration will liaise with the National Inland Waterways Authority to facilitate the completion of the Lokoja River Port and Idah Jetty and lobby for more jetties on both the rivers Niger and Benue.”
