Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), says the renovated Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre is fully booked till 2027.
Wike spoke in Abuja on Thursday during the inauguration of the Kugbo bus and taxi terminal, which was one of the projects completed to celebrate Tinubu’s second year in office.
Wike noted that the FCT administration came under criticism for spending N39 billion to upgrade the conference centre.
The minister said Tinubu’s recent hosting of an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting at the facility proved that the efforts were not in vain.
“You know Nigerians can pretend. They like good things, but they pretend as if they don’t,” NAN quoted Wike as saying.
“As I speak to you, that conference centre has been booked now till 2027. No space.
“In fact, I saw the application by the deputy speaker on constitutional amendment, but there is no space, no day, but I’m trying to adjust if he can pay on time, because it’s not free.
“There’s nothing like a national assembly this or that; you have to pay something for us to sustain the facility.”
He commended Tinubu for taking a decisive decision to move the country forward despite challenges.
“No leader can succeed without taking a decision because people will say something – people must say something because if you don’t take that decision, people will say something,” Wike said.
“If you take the decision, people will say something. Therefore, do something.
“For me, that’s all about what we are doing in FCT. We are not here to make only big men happy; we are here to make big men and poor people happy.
“That’s what will move this country forward, and that’s what the President has shown.”
Wike said the Kugbo and Mabushi bus and taxi terminals, as well as the one in the central business district under construction, would sanitise public transportation in the FCT.