Governor Oshiomhole: Nigerians Will Pelt Jonathan With Stones If…
Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who chaired a special committee set up by the
National Economic Council, NEC, in this interview with Sunday Vanguard insists
that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration plundered the nation’s
economy despite the defence being put forward by the former Minister of Finance,
and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
As a matter of fact, the Governor who is a member of the National Economic
Council, NEC, made further disclosures revealing that under the watch of
Okonjo-Iweala, the Federal Government spent the sum of N140billion on
consultancy for the Second Niger bridge.
He said the money was sourced from the Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, illegally,
asserting that the Igbos must hold the former President responsible since such
amount was expended with no bridge on ground.
He insists that the nation cannot succeed in the war against corruption unless
people are prosecuted, stressing that “If Nigerians know what these people
did, they will stone them to death, jungle justice. 700 million dollars gone
on second Niger bridge without any bridge to show”.
Oshiomhole, visibly angry, said he may not be able to reveal as much as he
would have liked but maintained that if Nigerians knew what actually went down
during Jonathan’s reign, they would stone him and his cabinet members on the
street.
He also spoke on the Edo World Bank loan, the race for the Edo guber race in
2016 and other national issues.
Excerpts:
Sir, the National Assembly recently approved the 75million dollar loan to Edo
State, but the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, opposed the loan deal
saying the state is already heavily indebted, how would you react to that?
First, is that the PDP does not believe in development and for them anything
that will bring prosperity to the people negates what they stand for. Which is
politics for the benefit of PDP leaders. And of course they are embarrassed by
the amount of goodwill that we have continued to enjoy from the people of the
state; it is not easy to be in government for six and half years and you can
still walk the streets – on and off. You find people trooping out to hail you
and, see, they have been praying, with the declining oil prices such that many
states can’t pay salaries.
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