You don’t understand figures, Tinubu is prudent – Umahi slams Atiku over coastal road project

 “It is quite
degrading on my part for him (Atiku) to think that a former party chairman,
former deputy governor, governor for eight years, a senator, that I am not a
stakeholder in this country and that I will do the wrong thing.

“So he doesn’t understand figures and I’m going to run
figures for him to understand and for him to understand how prudent the
administration of President Bola Tinubu is.

 “He will understand
how prudency is taking centre stage especially in my ministry. The President
had once engaged me on the cost of the project and I had to run the figures
with Mr President. He (Tinubu) still thinks I should bring down the cost of
projects.

“At the same time the contractors are crying that I am
oppressing them so much because what they were getting better before they are
no longer getting. So, Mr. Vice President, Atiku Abubakar must know that I am
between and betwixt.”

Umahi said he would make the cost public for Nigerians to
know.

 “When I run the
figures, Nigerians will see what this present administration is doing. I am not
here to run the figures, I have seen the figures they are parading, but my
figures are quite better than those figures and I understand this engineering.

 “Both the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and that of President Muhammadu
Buhari, for one reason or the other could not do that. But this present
administration will do it and I will tell the world the economic benefit and
how the coastal road will tie the entire country together, it is not just the
South-South and South-West. It’s tying the North together.”

But Atiku, in a further statement on Tuesday,  by the Special Assistant, Paul Ibe, dared the
Tinubu government to tell Nigerians the cost of the project.

 “The Tinubu
administration cannot continue to respond to the public inquiry with insults.
They must come clean on this project because Nigerians deserve to know the
truth. I, therefore, present six posers to the administration,” Atiku said.