Barely one week after saying National
Assembly members are corrupt, former
President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in
Ibadan, Oyo State, bombed all governors.
He said the governors live like emperiors,
and rendered public institutions useless and
irrelevant
Obasanjo dropped the bombedshell at the
inaugural conference of Ibadan School of
Government and Public Policy (ISGPP)
entitled: “Getting government to work for
development and democracy in Nigeria:
Agenda for change,’ held at the
International Conference Centre, University
of Ibadan.
It is on record that many governors have
refused to conduct local government
election since they assumed office and they
operate joint accounts with the council
such that paltry allocations usually get to
them.
According to Obasanjo, who chaired the
conference, “these days, Nigeria is a
country where some governors have
become sole administrators, acting like
emperors. These governors have rendered
public institutions irrelevant and useless.
“Is there development work going on in the
774 constitutionally recognised local
government councils, which have been
merely appropriated as private estate of
some governors. The governors have
hijacked the resources of the local
governments and this has crippled the
development of the local government
councils in the country,” he said.
Obasanjo also reiterated his call to the
National Assembly to make its budget open
to public scrutiny to ensure transparency
and probity.
He also noted that the drastic fall in oil
prices in the international market has
unravelled the weakness of governance in
Nigeria as announced recently by Minister
of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, “The 2016
budget deficit may be increased from the
current N2.2 trillion in the draft document
before the National Assembly to N3 trillion
due to decline in the price of crude oil. If
the current fiscal challenge is not creatively
addressed, Nigeria may be on its way to
another episode of debt overhang, which
may not be good for the country,” he
quoted the minister as saying.
“Recall that a few years ago, we rescued
Nigeria from its creditors with the deal in
which the Paris Club of sovereign creditors
wrote off USD 18 billions of debt, Africa’s
largest debt cancellation. Nigeria then
used the windfall earnings from oil export
to pay off another USD 12 billion in debts
and arrears,” Obasanjo noted.
source: www.sunnewsonline.com/new/obasanjo-bombs-govs/

Baba let this people work. you were once there. Only give them useful advice.

Age is seriously telling on this o'man. When a kettle is trying hard to call pot black in order to fix it's own blackness

Obansanjo





Your words dey always ginger Nigerians



As GEJ no wan hear word na I'm you treat I'm mama fk


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