Transport Correspondents lauds President Tinubu on Opeifa’s appointment

The Transportation Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN), has lauded President Bola Tinubu, for appointing Dr. Kayode Opeifa, as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, (NRC).

Describing the appointment as a right peg in the right hole, the Chairman of the association, Yinka Aderibigbe said the appointment would mark the beginning of better deals not only for the nation’s oldest public corporation but for the nation’s burgeoning railway sector.

Aderibigbe said Opeifa, a one-time Commissioner of Transportation in Lagos State, has all that it takes to sustain the good works of his predecessors in the corporation and continue to push the narrative that would see all the nation’s state capitals connected by rail in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu’s administration.

According to him, Opeifa played a pivotal role in transforming the city’s transportation sector, leading to a phenomenal shift in the transportation landscape of Lagos.

“His forward-thinking initiatives in public sector transportation were instrumental in the sustenance of the Lagos state’s initiatives in transportation which has changed the dynamics of the city’s mobility and traffic management setting a model for other sister-states.

“Opeifa is well prepared for the task ahead as the helmsman of the Railway Corporation, not only because he was a one-time Commissioner of Transportation under Governor Babatunde Fashola, under whose administration the State’s Strategic Transport Master Plan (STMP), took off, but was also appointed the Vice Chairman of the Lagos Ports Access Road Decongestion, spearheading initiatives that restored discipline on Apapa Ports access roads, putting an end to the decades long gridlock that made the nation’s busiest seaport a nightmare.”

The Transportation Correspondents Chairman maintained that the new Managing Director would ensure the delivery of new railway lines in line with the visions of the Tinubu administration, as he works at retooling the sustenance of Nigeria’s Railway Masterplan, which runs its full course this year.

He urged the new Managing Director to continue partnering with all critical stakeholders to achieve the mandate of Mr. President in repositioning the Nigerian Railway and ensuring that Nigerians get a better deal in public sector transportation where the railway plays a major role in logistics and passenger transportation across the country.