FG to Obasanjo: Don’t Pass Through LagosCalabar Highway Whenever It’s Completed Flays ex-president for downplaying Tinubu’s Landmark Projects Says ex-Nigerian leader trying to rewrite history, neglecting own failures in office Accuses him of mishandling energy sector, nation’s refineries, overseeing fraudulent privatisation of NITEL
Deji Elumoye in Abuja and Fidelis David in Akure The federal government has asked
former President Olusegun Obasanjo and those criticising the Lagos-Calabar Highway, among other legacy projects of President Bola Tinubu not to pass
through the roads when completed. Clarifying that the N15.6tn LagosCalabar Coastal highway project was not a wasteful and corrupt,
the government in another breath, took a swipe at Obasanjo for allegedly downplaying the importance of Tinubu’s infrastructure projects.
Obasanjo, in his recent memoir, had described the project as wasteful and corrupt, slamming Tinubu's administration for spending N21bn
on a new official residence for VicePresident Kashim Shettima, and called Continued on page 9
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El-Rufai: I Know Those Who Paid to Be Ministers, Says No Regrets Supporting Tinubu But Disappointed Hints Buhari gave his blessings, prayers before he exited APC Former president declares loyalty to party, says he won't work against it
Deji Elumoye and Chuks Okocha in Abuja
In what seemed like a gradual opening of can of worms, a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, who
had since risen against the government of the day, yesterday, said he knew those who paid to be made ministers
under President Bola Tinubu. El-Rufai, who claimed never to have lobbied for any position, however,
said he got the blessings and prayers of former President Muhammadu Buhari before his defection from the
All Progressives Congress (APC), to Continued on page 9
Tinubu Defends Reforms, Cardoso Upbeat on Economy, Says Time for Fear is Over
States Nigerians now hold assets in naira in sign of growing confidence Ribadu: Protecting local currency a national security obligation Declares naira abusers should face the law Usoro advocates financial inclusion for women, underserved groups Deji Elumoye and James Emejo in Abuja President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, articulated the rationale behind his administration's economic reforms, saying the primary motive is to protect the interests of future generations, whose commonwealth, he says, has been frittered in the last five decades. Tinubu made the remarks at State House, Abuja, while receiving a delegation of former National Assembly colleagues from the aborted Third Republic, when he served as senator for Lagos West. He highlighted the challenges Continued on page 9
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AT THE ONGOING MINISTERIAL PRESS BRIEFING SERIES...
L-R: Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa; Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris; and Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, at the ongoing Ministerial Press Briefing Series in Abuja, yesterday