Nigeria, Jan. 24 -- In politics, rhetoric is cheap. Promises are abundant. What remains scarce almost endangered is governance that can be touched, measured, and driven upon. In the Federal Capital Territory today, roads have emerged as the most honest witnesses to leadership, and they are speaking loudly, clearly, and without ambiguity.



If roads could vote, Abuja's would cast their ballots in appreciation of the Minister of the FCT, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike. If roads were human, their campaign for his leadership would be massive, organic, and impossible to suppress.

Before his appointment, many critical road networks within the capital stood as symbols of institutional fatigue. They were scarred by neglect impassable stretches, ...