“We urge the good people of the state to disregard this insinuation and act of desperation by elements of retrogression.” Nigeria
Abubakar’s aide, Muktar Jibril, denied that his principal used such amount to purchase woods and shrouds for burial of corpses at the Bauchi Muslims cemetery.
Jibril said his principal inherited the practice of purchasing burial materials for the graveyard from his predecessors. “However, the project, like any other of same magnitude, was awarded to qualified contractors. Based on available verifiable record, N1,270,743,520 had been expended since its inception and not the exaggerated figure of N2.3 billion mischievously posted on the social media by critics.
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