“You know the rail was killed and one of the former heads of state was bragging that he spent more than 15 billion American dollars on power. Where is the power? Where is the power?”
Although the president did not mention the name of the
ex-President, former president Olusegun Obasanjo, has answered. In a
statement credited to Obasanjo’s media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, released
in Abeokuta on Tuesday evening. Obasanjo said;
“It has come to the attention of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
that a statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, apparently
without correct information and based on ignorance, suggested that $16 billion was wasted on power projects by a former President.”
“We believe that the President was re-echoing the
unsubstantiated allegation against Chief Obasanjo by his own predecessor
but one.
“While it is doubtful that a President with proper
understanding of the issue would utter such, it should be pointed out
that records from the National Assembly had exculpated President
Obasanjo of any wrong-doing concerning the power sector and has proved
the allegations as false.
” For the records, Chief Obasanjo has addressed the
issues of the power sector and the allegations against him on many
occasions and platforms, including in his widely publicised book, My
Watch, in which he exhaustively stated the facts and reproduced various
reports by both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which
conducted a clinical investigation into the allegations against Chief
Obasanjo, and the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the Recommendations
in the Report of the Committee on Power on the Investigation into how
the Huge Sums Of Money was Spent on Power Generation, Transmission And
Distribution between June 1999 and May 2007 without Commensurate Result.
“We recommend that the President and his co-travellers
should read Chapters 41, 42, 43 and 47 of My Watch for Chief Obasanjo’s
insights and perspectives on the power sector and indeed what transpired
when the allegation of $16 billion on power projects was previously made.This Post First Appeared On Newssplashy.com || Latest Nigerian News Today <--adsense-->
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