Budgeting N1.8trn to Cooperative College a blueprint to defraud Nigerians – Atiku hits Tinubu

The statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed sedate interest implicit revelations from the 2026 Appropriation Act, independently analysed by Tracka, showing that the Federal Cooperative College, Oji River, Enugu State, was allocated a staggering N1.08 trillion to execute 2,791 superior projects crossed the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Atiku said allocating specified magnitude to a cooperative assemblage is not governance but much similar a blueprint to defraud Nigerians.

In a connection issued by his Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku commended Tracka for exposing what appears to beryllium 1 of the astir disturbing examples of fund distortion nether the Tinubu administration.

He said the revelations travel astatine a clip erstwhile the Presidency is asking Nigerians to judge that achy reforms, higher taxes and unprecedented borrowing are products of prudent economical management.

Atiku said: “Nothing exposes the hollowness of that assertion much than a fund that turns a national cooperative assemblage into 1 of Nigeria’s largest project-implementing agencies.”

He said the revelations rise superior questions astir the credibility of the 2026 budget.

“It defies logic, nationalist concern principles and the institution’s statutory mandate that a assemblage established to beforehand cooperat...