The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday took a swipe at Governor Seyi Makinde over what it described as fraudulent increment of the contract sum originally announced for the upgrade of the Ladoke Akinola Airport, Ibadan, warning that turning the project into another conduit for siphoning public funds would come with dire consequences.
The state government had in a statement on Wednesday through the Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade, said it had awarded the second phase of the airport upgrade project at a cost of approximately N7.009 billion after the payment of a sum of N42 billion which had been announced as the total cost of the project.
Oyelade also revealed the approval of about N10 billion as the cost for the perimeter fencing, construction of toilets and drilling of solar boreholes in an unspecified number of public primary and secondary schools in the state.