Edo
State governor who accompanied Buhari in 4-days State visit to United
States has alleged that A minister who served under the former Goodluck
Jonathan administration, stole $6billion (more than N1.2 trillion), he
told Reporters on Monday.
Oshiomhole
who failed to disclose the name of the minister said the details were
provided last week by United States officials during President Muhammadu
Buhari’s visit there. Mr. Oshiomhole, who was part of the delegation,
did not give the name of the minister.
“We have moved away from a president
that doesn’t seem to know his powers to one that understands that he is a
president of the country in the continent,” Mr. Oshiomhole said in
response to criticisms of the trip by the opposition Peoples Democratic
Party.
He spoke on Monday at the state house
where he and the Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, as members of the
APC governors’ forum, briefed President Buhari on the outcome of a
discussion held with APC Senators Sunday.
“PDP destroyed the country- I mean from
the lips of American officials; senior officials of the state
department. They said one minister under PDP cornered as much as
$6billion, and the man said even by Washington standard that is
earth-quaking,” he said.
He said the country was being very
patient with the PDP; otherwise Nigerians would have been “stoning”
anyone carrying the badge of the party.
Mr. Oshiomhole said the PDP government
plundered Nigeria, destroyed its institutions, damaged the military,
converted the NTA to a party megaphone, destroyed the SSS, went after
opposition, and compromised even student unions.
Mr.
Oshiomole said under the PDP, there was no law as they were law to
themselves. “We are a very patient people. If we were not a patient
people, anybody wearing the tag of PDP ought to feel very unsafe because
you are all victims- all of us here,” he said.
He quoted American officials as saying
that Mr. Jonathan was seen as a confused president who did not know what
they issues were, leaving others outside the country “frustrated”.
Recalling a chat with the US Assistant
Secretary of State, Johnnie Carson, on the difference between the two
administrations, Mr. Oshiomhole said Mr. Carson told him that each time
they thought that there was light at the end of the tunnel for Nigeria
and it is time to encourage them to build on it, “you we would wake up
the following day under president Jonathan to find out that even the
tunnel had been removed”.
“Now
last week, this same Carson cheered the president’s address at the
Institute of Peace. And he said ‘we now have a man of enormous
integrity; one that has shown so much faith in the democratic process;
one that refused to be frustrated even in the face of massively rigged
elections,” he said.
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