Tinubu Can’t Continue To Keep Silent When Asked To Speak About Usage Of Public Funds – Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar has come out to dare President Bola Tinubu to disclose the full cost of the Lagos-Calabar highway project.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the Tinubu administration cannot continue to keep silent on how much public funds would be spent on the project at a time when Nigeria is still facing dire economic challenges, so they have to speak up soon.

He added that the administration’s decision to award the contract to Gilbert Chagoury’s Hitech without competitive bidding is very suspicious too.

His words, “The Tinubu administration cannot continue to respond to the public inquiry with insults. They must come clean on this project because Nigerians deserve to know the truth. I, therefore, present six posers to the administration.

1. How much is the total cost of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway? 2. Why is the project being funded by the Nigerian government despite being a PPP? 3. Why is the project taking off from Chagoury’s Eko Atlantic? 4. Why is N1.06tn being spent on the pilot phase, which is just 47km?

5. Why did the N1.06tn not get the approval of the National Assembly? 6. Why wasn’t there a competitive bidding for the project? 7. Finally, how did the Tinubu administration get the design as well as the right of way in just 7 months, since it claims the past administration of Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari never touched the project?

n his desperation to always want to hug the headlines as a self-appointed opposition leader, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has allowed himself to be led into a blind alley again by his poorly informed aides.”