Oduah further challenged the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to provide evidence linking her with the alleged N9.8 billion, saying: ‘All allegations made against me remain mere media sensations orchestrated for mere political reasons.
The former Minister of Aviation
and current senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District, Senator
Stella Oduah has said that up till date she has not seen any evidence against
her concerning the recently released looters list by the federal government and
that the allegation involving the said sum of N9.8 billion is not only untrue
but laughable.
Oftentimes, I ignore them
believing the orchestrators would repent after several failed outings.
Mis-using the media and misleading the society through the media at the expense
of innocent citizens in order to win a medal is unfortunate and most
irresponsible. Governance is not warfare.
Calumny is evil ‘I
challenge Lai Mohammed to provide evidence linking me with his wild
allegations. I have been waiting for that evidence and I am yet to see any.’
The Federal Government on
Sunday released more list of looters in Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), saying
that the list of alleged looters which it released earlier was based on
verifiable facts, including the amount involved, the date the amount in
question was collected and from where it was taken.
Read Stella Oduah’s full
statement
‘My attention has been
drawn to the illusionary list of looters released by Lai Mohammed in which, by
treachery or by happenstance, my name featured. ‘It is worrisome how a serving
Minister could condescend so low in what appeared like a childish altercation
to start mentioning names of his alleged looters without verified or verifiable
facts, in order to win what he considered a quarrel.
‘In deliberately taking on those
he considered prominent in the achievements of the past administration, he
mentioned my name against an allegation of a whooping sum of N9.8 billion
naira. But for the records, I would have simply ignored him since his notoriety
in making false and laughable statements has gained prominence in recent times.
‘Record has it that my
achievements as the Aviation Minister are unbeatable till date. I did not
engage in any financial impropriety as the Minister and the allegation
involving the said sum of N9.8 billion is not only untrue but laughable.
‘The said contract awarded
by the Ministry of Aviation under my watch was executed and based on the
request of the contractors, they were paid their money which they utilized in
the manner they did. ‘The records are still with the Ministry.
I have no business with the
companies that took part in executing that contract and till now, I do not
understand how anything went wrong over that contract that was executed. ‘I
have never taken any illegal proceeds from the government purse.
God had since blessed me
tremendously before I joined politics in the quest to serve my country and I
remain content and grateful to God. ‘The trend of harassing past office holders
with false and malicious allegations to score a political point destroys rather
than helps the integrity of the anti-corruption stance of the government and
indeed makes holding public office very discouraging.
‘The machines
seized/forfeited by the Federal Government over the allegation on the said
money are not mine. ‘I challenge Lai Mohammed to provide evidence linking me
with his wild allegations.
I have been waiting for that evidence and I am
yet to see any. ‘All allegations made against me remain mere media sensations
orchestrated for mere political reasons. Oftentimes, I ignore them believing
the orchestrators would repent after several failed outings.
Mis-using the media and
misleading the society through the media at the expense of innocent citizens in
order to win a medal is unfortunate and most irresponsible. Governance is not
warfare. Calumny is evil.
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