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‘I Owe You Nothing’, Tinubu Tells Wike.

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  The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has told Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that he (Tinubu) owed him nothing but that “You have to lobby me to collect”. Tinubu said this today (Wednesday) in Port Harcourt, the state capital, during the inauguration of the Rumuokuta Flyover, while responding to a request by Governor Wike, who asked for refunds on federal projects undertaken by states of the federation. Justifying the proposal and why his administration has been able to deliver several significant projects seamlessly, Wike had told Tinubu: “Part of why we have uncompleted projects has to do with our procurement laws. If you follow the procurement law, it will take very long to complete tasks. “When you give a contractor 15%, inflation is rising almost every day; before you give another money, they will call for variation because of increasing cost of materials.“In our case, I call Mr Speaker to say we can’t continue this. We had to amend our procurement law to give us the