Sanwo-Olu made this known on Thursday, in an address at the Lagos West Senatorial District Town Hall Meeting held at the Sheraton, Ikeja, Lagos.

“We’ve done extensive work on the bridge but we are at the crossroads of where to get real financing for that kind of project we need to be very creative but thank God that we have reached the last point of the construction.

“Our commitment is that within this first quarter, meaning that by the end of March or April, we should break grounds to start the construction of the Fourth Mainland Bridge”, Sanwo-Olu stated.

He further added: “It is going to be built in phases; phase one will be from the Junction at Abraham Adesanya all the way to the Waterfront that we have at Badore.

“I am using this opportunity to say that we have done extensive study, so we cannot get a new road without having to do a little bit of discomfort but we will ensure that we will compensate everybody that their properties or businesses will be disturbed by this construction. So, it is going to be along the existing corridors and a few buildings will be touched.”

Sanwo-Olu pledged that the state government would pay adequate compensated to tenants and landlords of the buildings to be affected.