A verbal war has emerged between the Niger State government and the Action Congress of Nigeria following the latter‘s allegations that the government had turned all the public private partnership projects into a conduit to siphon money from the state‘s treasury.
Our correspondent learnt that the party raised the alarm following failures of many of the PPP projects which were said to have collapsed after government had doled out huge sums of money to contractors handling them.
The ACN had in a statement made available to our correspondent in Minna expressed concern that the Peoples Democratic Party-led administration in the state had wasted huge resources on such projects without expected results.
The party in the statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Adamu Aliyu, said the government had against the spirits of PPP initiative paid hefty sums to contractors who later abandoned such projects.
Aliyu was specifically disturbed that against the PPP principles, the government had paid N500m to a contractor for construction of a five-star hotel which was later abandoned at its feasibility study stage.
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