Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the 15.6 trillion naira Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project as wasteful and corrupt.
He equally slammed the President Bola Tinubu administration for spending 21 billion naira on a new official residence for Vice President Kashim Shettima, calling it a misplaced priority and conduit designed to embezzle public funds.
The ex-leader disclosed this in Chapter Six of his new book, Nigeria: Past and Future, where he painted the portrait and characters of chief executives at both the federal and state levels.
The former president said the majority of those who have been opportune to hold leadership positions in the country as governors, presidents, ministers, commissioners, even as local government chairmen, are ill-prepared, satanic, self-centred and are all out to corruptly enrich themselves while the nation continues to wallow in abject poverty and condemnable underdevelopment.