Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has berated the purported Abuja infrastructural development drive attributed to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.
Dalung also faulted the claim attributed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, that Abuja has started looking like London.
The ex-minister, while speaking on Arise TV on Friday, said the area where he lives in Abuja does not look like London.
“If the Senate President is feeling like he’s in London, it could be the London of his own immediate environment,” he said.
Dalung, who earlier affirmed the existence of ‘dangerous cabals’ in President Bola Tinubu’s government, described the narratives about Wike’s projects in Abuja as a misrepresentation of progress, saying the Federal Capital city lacks basic amenities.
He said it is unfair to celebrate road constructions in a city with no proper schools and health facilities.
I think there is misrepresentation of progress and limiting it to the elites alone or priviledge class. It’s unfair. In Abuja, I know there’s no water. Most people support themselves with private initiatives through boreholes. The public school system in Abuja is not different from (those) in any part of Nigeria. The healthcare delivery system is of course like a transit camp,” Dalung said.
He emphasized that road projects in the FCT do not translate to development because such projects do not touch the general wellbeing of the people.
Earlier, the former Sports Minister maintained that the people around President Tinubu pursue their selfish interests and thus disconnect him from the reality of Nigerians plights.
Dalung affirms existence of ‘dangerous cabals’ in Tinubu’s govt, refuses to mention names
Asked to mention the names of the people who constitute the cabals, derailing Tinubu’s directives, the ex-minister said he reserves the right to mention no name.