PDP chiefs knock Aregbesola for raising airport contract by N58bn

Some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State have flayed Governor Rauf Aregbesola over the increase in the contract sum of the state’s airport from N11bn to N69bn.

A member of the PDP Caretaker Committee in Osun State, Mr. Bamidele Salam, in an interview with Punch correspondent in Osogbo on Monday, described the increase of the contract sum through a concession agreement, which will last 30 years, as a “highly suspicious transaction.”

Salam said, “This is one senseless, needless and highly suspicious transaction that the state government is entering into. For a government which has not been able to provide potable water, good road network, functional education and affordable health care, going into this highly exorbitant project is the height of rudderlessness.

Punch, October 31, 2017

 

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