Last administration paid N140bn as consultancy fee for the 2nd Niger bridge, Gov Oshiomhole alleges

Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole has alleged that a whooping N140bn was paid as consultancy fee for the

 construction of a second Niger bridge by the last administration. Oshiomhole  said this while reacting to insinuation

s that the Buhari led government was victimizing the Igbos because they did not vote for him. He said if at all there

 was any victimization, it was in the last administration.

"For those who are interested in politics of sharing, I am not interested; I am interested in the politics of 

baking. If the competent hands come from one family and they will deliver to the nation so be it. If a 

Kenyan can be elected as an American President why should we continue to discuss South South or 

South East.
The second Niger Bridge is what Ndigbo needs to ask Jonathan, where is that bridge? They did ground 

breaking, water breaking, where is the bridge? When Father Mbaka talked about the shame of Onitsha- 

Enugu road, people misconstrued his comments. Let me tell you, if the Igbos were marginalized, it was by 

President Jonathan under the PDP. Even the consultancy they did in the name of the second Niger Bridge, 

the expenditure they incurred which is not on ground, about 700 million dollars of that was funded from the 

Sovereign Wealth Fund which is money not belonging to the Federal Government but to the 774 Local 

Government Areas, the 36 states and of course the Federal Government. We called them to appear before 

us and they said they spent 700 million dollars from the Sovereign Wealth fund and I asked them where is 

the bridge? That 700million dollars amounted to N140billion on the second Niger Bridge and that money 

belongs to the three tiers of government. Okonjo Iweala was shouting on the need to have a Sovereign 

Wealth Fund but you can see what they used the money for. Those are the issues the Igbos should ask 

Jonathan to account for. Where is our bridge? Where is the dual carriage way from Onitsha to Owerri and 

Enugu. The roads in the South South as Obasanjo will say are embarrassment to the people of the South 

South. You cannot drive to Yenagoa, no road; so much noise about East West road, where is the road? 

You go to Akwa Ibom the Federal roads there are in bad shape. I have listened to governors from the 

South East, they will tell you there are no roads in the South East. So if the Igbos were marginalized, 

it was President Jonathan and the PDP. If Nigerians know what these people did, they will stone them to 

death – jungle justice. 700 million dollars gone on second Niger bridge without any bridge to show"he said.