Osinbajo uncovers amount Buhari's legislature has spent on second Niger Bridge

VP, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the national government under President Muhammadu Buhari has so far burned through $2bn from the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) for the consummation of the second Niger Bridge.

He said this amid the banner off of the governorship battle of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Onitsha range of Anambra State.

Rehashing the dedication of the Federal Government in creating foundation in the South East, Osinbajo stated: "We are not making guarantees to no end. The second Niger Bridge, we have been discussing it for quite a while. In any case, out of the blue, President Muhammadu Buhari passed independent from anyone else to arrange the office to do that second Niger Bridge.

"Furthermore, that is the reason the second Niger Bridge is in our present spending plan and we have accommodated it. Truth be told, I am being reminded that only two days back, the Sovereign Wealth Fund paid $2bn for that same undertaking. So we will see our second Niger Bridge. We won't make guarantees we can't keep."

The VP went ahead to assert that the past organizations relinquished the Lagos-Calabar railroad venture, focusing on that it has been restored under the APC-drove Federal Government.

"When we were discussing railroad, Lagos-Calabar rail line, under the old organization, I won't say them by name.

"They said Lagos-Calabar will go from Lagos to Calabar, there was no association with the South-East. It was when President Muhammadu Buhari came that we updated the Lagos-Calabar so as to go through Onitsha in any case.

"By that new plan, we additionally have the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri railroad that has an association with Umuahia-Owerri and Enugu-Awka. So those, we won't make guarantees we can't keep. Each guarantee we influence, we to will keep," he included.

Talking further, Mr Osinbajo additionally focuses on that Anambra was the main state to profit by the school sustaining activity that has utilized over a thousand cooks and encouraged over a hundred thousand.

He included, "This state was the main state to get our home-developed school encouraging. This Anambra was the principal express that we gave cash for that program. Furthermore, we have as of now in 807 schools, here in Anambra state where these youthful youngsters (elementary schools) are now sustained.

"We have over a hundred thousand kids that are as of now nourished here in Anambra state, and that is an APC program, our home-developed school encouraging project. We have drawn in finished a thousand cooks, over a thousand people are cooking. We have our N-Power program for youthful graduates. As of now we have utilized more than 4,000 graduates and we plan to build the number."