FCT: 70 percent of projects I completed were awarded 16 years ago – Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that projects completed by the FCT Administration under his leadership were awarded 15 to 16 years ago.

Wike explained that the FCTA under his leadership took up these project in line with President Bola Tinubu’s mandate that no project must be abandoned.

He spoke during his monthly media chat on the state of the nation in Abuja on Thursday.

According to Wike: “The president said we can’t abandon old projects and while we can’t abandon old projects we must also see that we carry out new projects.

“I can tell you that 60 percent of the projects we have done for the past three years were projects that were awarded 15 to 16 years ago but abandoned.

“And if we had allowed that you will now know what would have happened in Abuja.

“Even if we do any new thing, you will say look at these areas that have been abandoned. So what we did first was to make sure that projects that were awarded and abandoned, let us see how to finish them, which we have done, not less than 70 percent.”