The minister, who spoke at the commissioning of the newly constructed Left-Hand Service Carriageway in the nation’s capital, said everything in the conference centre was changed except the block work. Wike said though the ₦240m was spent on building the conference centre in 1991 during the military regime of former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, a lot has changed in the prices of commodities hence the sum of ₦39bn spent on the renovation of the conference centre. On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, President Bola Tinubu inaugurated the refurbished International Conference Centre, Abuja, which the FCT minister renamed after him as the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja. Some members of the opposition including former federal lawmaker Shehu Sani subsequently faulted Wike’s decision and argued that the conference centre should have been renamed after Babangida and not Tinubu. Some people also believed that the money spent on the rehabilitation of the conference centre was outrageous.