Tinubu’s Govt Denies Allegation on Fela Durotoye and ₦5B Contract

The Presidency has taken issue with a report that connected President Bola Tinubu’s administration to the phony government contract declaration of Fela Durotoye, a well-known leadership coach and former Alliance for New Nigeria presidential candidate.
Speaking at the biennial conference of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday, Durotoye reportedly described how, in spite of intense persuasion from a representative posing as a pastor, he turned down a chance to embezzle ₦5 billion in a shady government transaction.
In an article published on Wednesday by Church Times Nigeria, he disclosed that he was approached by a representative offering him a lucrative training contract and claiming that he had already been chosen for the position.
Within eight weeks, the program required training individuals in all 774 local government areas of Nigeria, and Durotoye was informed that he met all the requirements.

He ensured that costs were precisely based on actual spending by creating an invoice upon request. A fair price of 1.3 billion naira was determined by his team for the training.

But everything changed when the president called three days later.

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The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, shared a video of the interview on his X Twitter on Thursday. According to Daily Trust, Onanuga stated that Durotoye never made accusations against any members of Tinubu’s administration.

“Daily Trust was discovered to be lying once more,” he stated. I watched the video that Durotoye posted. In Tinubu’s government, he never made any accusations. However, the unreliable tabloid will always distort news and headlines to harm the Tinubu administration’s standing.