Buhari Already Paid For Ibom Deep Sea Port, NDC Tells APC/Tinubu

The Nigeria Democratic Congress(NDC), has said the All Progressives Congress(APC) led
administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu shop should stop its deceit over the Ibom Deep Sea Port in Akwa Ibom state, stressing that Late President Muhammadu Buhari had paid for the first phase of the project.

NDC National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director in a statement said President Tinubu, while campaigning in Uyo, had promised and granted approval for the construction of the Ibom Deep Sea Port.

Director said under former President Buhari administration the Federal Executive Council gave approval for the implementation of the first phase of the $4.6 billion Ibom Deep Sea Port (IDSP) during its meeting on December 16, 2020.

“That approval named Bollore/Power China as the preferred bidder and was meant to allow construction to commence.

“In a brazen display of ignorance of statecraft and the elevation of grand deceit as a campaign strategy, President Tinubu, as APC presidential candidate, first promised the port during his 2023 campaign.

“At the APC campaign rally at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo on 30 January 2023, he told supporters: “We will do mechanised farming. We will export food from Akwa Ibom. We will build your seaport.”

“Unfortunately, as is characteristic of the APC, they never fulfilled the promise. Over three years down the line, President Tinubu on Friday, 6 November 2026, had to promise again to construct the long-awaited Ibom Deep Sea Port project in Akwa Ibom State.

“Obviously, this is another round of cheap promises that will not be kept or honoured. Just as before, so it will be now — empty promises. All talk and no action.

“As Nigerians are still waiting for the APC and President Tinubu to give us uninterrupted electricity supply, so Akwa Ibomites are waiting endlessly for the promised deep sea port that has become a campaign tool of deceit.

“Nigerians must shine their eyes and dump the APC into the abyss of socio-political irrelevance and make a new Nigeria possible,” stated.