Presidency illuminates subsidizing for second Niger Bridge as N2bn not $2bn

 The Vice President's Spokesman, Laolu Akande, has illuminated the mistake in the productions credited to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on arrival of store for development of the second Niger Bridge.

R-L THE MINISTER OF WORKS AND HOUSING, BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA, THE GOVERNOR OF NIGER STATE, ALH (Dr) ABUBAKAR SANI BELLO, THE ACTING PRESIDENT, YEMI OSINBAJO THE ETSU NUPE ALH YAHAYA ABUBAKAR AND THE REPRESENTATIVE OF CGC CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, DURING AN INSPECTION TOUR OF THE COLLAPSED TATABU BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION SITE, IN MOKWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT, NIGER STATE

The illumination on Tuesday came as a few media cited Osinbajo as reporting $2 billion rather than N2 billion for the task.

As indicated by Akande, amid the APC Governorship crusade in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Oct. 20, Osinbajo had repeated the Buhari organization's sense of duty regarding staying faithful to its commitments to the Nigerian individuals.

He said that one of those guarantees was the development of the second Niger Bridge, including that the right sum discharged was in the official news discharge he sent on the Vice President's comments amid the crusade rally same day.

"I quoted the VP as saying that "the Sovereign Wealth Fund paid N2 billion for that same task (Sum paid to the temporary worker: Julius Berger for early works).

"We will see our second Niger Bridge, we won't make guarantees we can't keep," Akande reviewed.

He, notwithstanding, watched that a short video cut from the occasion caught on the news section of a TV station cited Osinbajo as specifying "$2bn", and not "N2bn", which was what he had really intended to state.

"Specifying the dollar money was accidental.

"As it happened, the passage from the video, which was shared on the web, was what was cited in the features of a few media houses, and in remarks via web-based networking media.

"The figures were lost. Sympathetically set the records straight, from the discourse I had sent.

"It would be ideal if you note, once more, the whole accommodated this is really two billion naira (N2 billion),'' Akande included.

He expressed that it was likewise correlated to express that the feature of the rally and Osinbajo's comments was the dedication of the organization to enhance the nation's transportation system and economy.

"The APC government is a legislature that will do all that it has guaranteed. We are not making guarantees to no end.

"The second Niger Bridge we have been discussing it for quite a while, yet out of the blue, the President passed independent from anyone else to arrange the office to do that second Niger Bridge.

"That is the reason the second Niger Bridge is in our present spending plan and we have accommodated it," the Vice President was cited to have expressed.

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