Abati said loans from Opay and Moniepoint is not the kind of
money the Tinubu administration needs.

Melaye had accused Tinubu’s administration of recklessness
while faulting the President’s claim that the country had met its revenue
projections for 2025.

However, Abati while speaking on Arise Television’s Morning
Show, said: “Dino Melaye is a chieftain of the ADC, an opposition party, so you
do not expect that he would praise the Tinubu’s administration.

“He is a very articulate and outspoken personality, so he is
accusing the president of borrowing. Now let’s look into the details, President
Tinubu said ‘we have met revenue projections and are making a lot of money from
non-oil and we are not borrowing from Nigerian banks’.

“I’m surprised that Melaye is talking about borrowing from
MoniePoint and Opay. I don’t think that is the kind of money the Nigerian
government will be looking for in terms of capacity.

“The other claim that he made that Tinubu has a yacht paid
for by Nigerian taxpayers and it’s between Monaco and wherever. That is not
true, when this issue of yacht came up, it wasn’t the Tinubu administration
that talked about yacht, it was the Buhari’s administration in the 2023
Supplementary budget.

“At that time when the controversy came up and people were
saying why yacht for the President? The Navy came forward and said it was a
vessel they used for Naval operations that was named Presidential yacht and not
for President Tinubu, so it’s not something that was purchased for luxury but
you know in politics, you can bring up anything that is sensational.”