Following the heavy downpour in parts of Lagos and Ogun states on Monday, the Long Bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was submerged by flood.
Motorists and commuters were left stranded in the gridlock while motorists waded the waters slowly.
One of the stranded motorists, who gave his name simply as Bakare, said the gridlock induced by the floodwater on the bridge made him spend hours on a journey that should have lasted minutes.
He said, “The gridlock was terrible; it was not easy because of the volume of the flood on the bridge which affected the movements of vehicles. The flood can damage vehicles and I saw some vehicles had broken down on the bridge.
“I encountered the gridlock on the bridge around 4pm on my way to work and I got out of it around 6.31pm. The flood was on the bridge because the openings to drain the flood had been blocked.”
In the video titled ‘Warning, Long Bridge is flooded, slow down’, the floodwater rose to the level of the barricades at both sides of the bridge, indicating that the bridge had no outlet to empty the flood causes by the torrential rainfall.