Tinubu govt’s alleged appropriation of N8.05bn for mosques, churches stirs controversy 

President Bola Tinubu government’s determination to dole retired N8.05 cardinal for the operation and renovation of mosques for Muslims and churches for Christians crossed the state has stirred crisp criticisms.

While immoderate spot the determination arsenic trivializing the socio-economic and information challenges that person enveloped the country, others spot it arsenic a governmental instrumentality to triumph the people’s enactment up of the 2027 statesmanlike elections.

There are others who judge the authorities is being insensitive to the yearnings of millions of Nigerians, who are accepted worshippers and those who beryllium to different faiths, arsenic good arsenic a fewer atheists.

The archetypal to occurrence the salvo is the erstwhile vice president and statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

In a connection by his Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku lamented that portion millions of Nigerians were grappling with crushing poverty, the Federal Government was earmarking N8.05 cardinal for spiritual related projects.

He made notation to an investigation by a nationalist accountability organisation, Tracka, saying that astir N1.91 cardinal had been allocated to church-rela...