The Federal Government and PDP Leader, Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar have traded words over the cost of the Lagos-Calabar Highway Project.
In a statement on Tuesday, Atiku, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), dared President Bola Tinubu to disclose the full cost of the project.
The former Vice President said the Tinubu administration could not continue to keep silent on how much of public funds would be spent on the project at a time Nigeria was still facing dire economic challenges.
Atiku, through his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, questioned the Tinubu administration’s decision to award the contract to Gilbert Chagoury’s Hitech without a competitive bidding.
He had also wondered why the Tinubu administration released One point zero-Six Trillion Naira for the pilot phase or Six Percent of the project, which begins at Eko Atlantic and is expected to terminate at the Lekki Deep Sea Port.
Atiku questioned how the Tinubu administration got the design and the right of way in seven months, since it claimed the past administrations of Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari never touched the project.
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