Atiku’s aide challenges Wike to disclose funding for media broadcasts

Media advisor to erstwhile Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe, has challenged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to disclose the outgo and backing sources of unrecorded broadcasts of his media engagements.

Ibe made the telephone successful a station connected X connected Tuesday, pursuing a media parley featuring Wike that was broadcast by respective tv and vigor stations.

He questioned the outgo of airing the programme, estimating that astatine betwixt N10 cardinal and N20 cardinal per presumption per hour, 8 stations broadcasting for 2 hours could outgo betwixt N160 cardinal and N320 cardinal per session.

According to his calculation, holding 12 sessions monthly could bring the estimated expenditure to betwixt N1.92 cardinal and N3.84 billion.

However, the figures were estimates provided by Ibe and person not been independently verified.

He argued that Wike’s media engagements should absorption much connected infrastructure improvement and nationalist services successful the FCT alternatively than governmental disagreements with different governmental figures and groups.

“FCT residents merit to cognize however overmuch is being spent connected these broadcasts and however overmuch airtime is devoted to FCT dev...