Monday 18 January 2016

Aregbesola inflated airport contract by N11.5bn, says PDP



The Peoples Democratic Party has accused Governor Rauf Aregbesola of inflating the contract sum of the Moshood Abiola International Airport, Ido Osun, from N4.5bn to N15.5bn.

The Director of Media and Strategy of the PDP in the state, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, said this in a statement in Osogbo on Sunday.
The opposition party accused the governor of jerking up the contract sum in order to allegedly embezzle the bailout loan the state got from the Central Bank of Nigeria while workers in the employ of the state were languishing as a result of unpaid salaries.
dministrator, adding that the reawarding the contract was in clear violation of the Public Procurement Act.
The Consultant on Information to Osun State Government, Mr. Sunday Akere, when contacted on the telephone said he was at a very noisy place.
Although the noise could be heard at the background, Akere had yet to respond to the text sent to him on the matter as of the time of filing this report.

The Punch

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