{"id":177305,"date":"2025-09-02T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:27:47","slug":"tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu govt covering up nepotism \u2013 ADC alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says the administration of President Bola Tinubu is manipulating infrastructure data with the view to deflect criticism over nepotism and regional bias.<\/p>\n<p>The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, who alleged this in a statement on Tuesday, said the government\u2019s recently released report on infrastructure progress raised new doubts about fair governance and showed a worrying readiness to mislead the public with fake information.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled \u2018Infrastructure Equity for Every Region, Progress for Every Nigerian; the Renewed Hope Agenda in Action,\u2019 was presented by the government as a measure of accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The ADC described it as a panicked propaganda tool aimed at damage control in response to growing criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately for the administration, in a desperate attempt to defend its record, it ended up exposing itself with manipulated evidence,\u201d Abdullahi said.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition party also alleged that some projects were wrongly listed under the North-West region, including the Damaturu\u2013Maiduguri and Bama\u2013Dikwa roads in Borno State, which belong to the North-East, as well as the Lokoja\u2013Okene dualisation in Kogi State and the Benue\u20139th Mile road, both in the North-Central zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says the administration of President Bola Tinubu is manipulating infrastructure data with the view to deflect criticism over nepotism and regional bias. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, who alleged this in a statement on Tuesday, said the government\u2019s recently released report on infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,254,945],"class_list":["post-177305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu govt covering up nepotism \u2013 ADC alleges - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says the administration of President Bola Tinubu is manipulating infrastructure da ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu govt covering up nepotism \u2013 ADC alleges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says the administration of President Bola Tinubu is manipulating infrastructure da ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T19:59:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T21:27:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756836038.971096.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu govt covering up nepotism \u2013 ADC alleges\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-02T19:59:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-02T21:27:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756836038.971096.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-govt-covering-up-nepotism-adc-alleges\",\"name\":\"Tinubu govt covering up nepotism \u2013 ADC alleges - 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