THURSDAY March 13, 2025 |TheNewsDESK
By Idorenyin UMOREN
Ex-Nigeria’s President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has accused President Bola Tinubu’s government of corruption and financial waste over the N15.6 trillion Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project.
Chief Obasanjo said President Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima exemplified financial waste and corruption.
The Ex-president, a critic of successive administrations since he left office, described the highway project measuring 700km as wasteful and corrupt.
Chief Obasanjo condemned President Tinubu’s spending of N21 billion on a new official residence for Vice President Shettima, describing it as a misplaced priority designed to embezzle public funds.
“Typical examples of waste, corruption and misplaced priority are the murky Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road on which the president had turned deaf ears to protests,” said Ex-president Obasanjo in his new book, ‘Nigeria: Past and Future’.
“And the new vice-president’s official residence built at a cost of N21 billion in the time of economic hardship to showcase the administration hitting the ground running and to show the importance of the office of the vice-president. What small minds!”
The presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga,bcould not be reached for comments.
