Group tackles Atiku over comment on Lagos-Calabar highway project

The Independent Media and Policy Initiative has said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar sparked controversy over the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project to discredit it. The group’s chairman, Chief Niyi Akinsiju Cifian, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.

“Again, we believe that Waziri Abubakar deliberately chose to ignore the convention of anticipatory approval, by which FEC can increase funds allocated to a budgetary item for exigency purposes with the intent of submitting the same to the legislative arm for consideration and approval. “To build a 2-lane road of 12 metres wide of each lane with no bridges in states of North Eastern United States of America is $3.34m per km while same 2-lane road in South Eastern USA with no bridges is $3.78m per km .”

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