Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, has opined that the N15.6 trillion Lagos-Calabar coastal highway is not a wasteful project.
It was earlier reported that former president Olusegun Obasanjo has labelled the highway project as not only wasteful but also a corrupt venture.
The former president also criticized the current administration under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for squandering a whopping N21 billion on a new official residence for the Vice-President.
Obasanjo was quoted to have made these statements in chapter six of his new book ‘Nigeria: Past and Future’, which was unveiled last week on his 88th birthday.
He said, “State resources are captured and appropriated, with a pittance to staff and associates to silence whistleblowers.
“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 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!”
Senator Shehu Sani reacted to the assertion made by the former president via his official X handle on Thursday noted that the highway project is not wasteful because the fund for the project could have been stolen.
He wrote, “I don’t think Lagos Calabar highway is wasteful, taking cognisance that such amount of money for the project can be stolen by one man, as it happened in the CBN in the past.”
