Former Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani has stated that the N15.6 trillion Lagos-Calabar coastal highway is not a wasteful project.
Chronicle NG reports that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had described the coastal highway project as a wasteful and corrupt venture.
Obasanjo also criticised the President Bola Tinubu administration for spending N21 billion on a new official residence for Vice President Kashim Shettima.
Obasanjo made these remarks in his new book, ‘Nigeria: Past and Future,’ which was unveiled last week to mark his 88th birthday.
Obasanjo said, “State resources are captured and appropriated, with a pittance to staff and associates to silence whistleblowers.
“Typical examples of waste, corruption, and misplaced priorities are the murky Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, on which the President had turned a deaf ear to protests, and the new Vice-President’s official residence built at a cost of N21bn 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!”
Reacting to Obasanjo’s claims, Sani, in a post via his official X handle on Thursday, said the highway project is not wasteful, adding that the funds for the project could have been stolen.
Sani wrote, “I don’t think the Lagos-Calabar highway is wasteful, taking cognisance that such an amount of money for the project can be stolen by one man, as it happened in the CBN in the past.”
