Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has chastised President Bola Tinubu's administration for awarding the 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project to Hitech Construction Company Limited “without any evidence of competitive bidding or a decision by the Federal Executive Council (FEC)”. Atiku claimed that the award was cloaked in mystery because the Minister of Works, Engineer Dave Umahi, declined to reveal the contractual amount involved in the project.