Former President Olusegun
Obasanjo has reacted to a statement by President Buhari who said he will probe
the $16 billion spent on power during the 16-year PDP rule.
According to President
Buhari who spoke at the APC presidential rally in Bayelsa state on Tuesday
February 12th, there will be probe on all the past governments involed in the
$16 billion power project.
Reacting to the statement,
Obasanjo through his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, said the request for a probe
on the power project is borne out of ignorance.
”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 (EFCC),
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.
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