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The Senate on Thursday dismissed a
scathing attack by former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, saying Mr.
Obasanjo merely sought to disrespect
the National Assembly by accusing its
members of extensive corruption.
Mr Obasanjo, in a furious outburst
Wednesday, had accused members of
the Senate and House of
Representatives of stealing
constituency funds, and extorting
government officials they supervise
through blackmail and intimidation.
The spokesperson for the Senate,
Enyinnaya Abaribe, said in a
statement that Mr. Obasanjo’s claim
about constituency project funds
was an outright lie aimed at
misinforming Nigerians.
“The allegation as spurious as it
were. Its very distant from the truth
and is nowhere near reality,” Mr.
Abaribe said.​
“President Obasanjo for the
avoidance of doubt, was the initiator
of the constituency project in the
year 2000 as a means of ensuring
that projects were fairly spread
across the country using the
Senatorial zones as the spring board.
“To ensure execution of the projects,
President Obasanjo again factored
the constituency projects into the
annual budgets to be implemented by
the executive depending on availability
of funds. That is to say that no
lawmaker ever comes close to the
funds or even determine the
contractor for the said projects or
when the said contract would be
awarded,” Mr. Abaribe said.
He said it was curious that Mr.
Obasanjo would turn around after
over 10 years of initiating such a
project to accuse the National
Assembly of misusing such money.
“Such allegation stands logic on its
head, as it amounts to an indictment
of the Presidency for wilfully
contravening the budget laws by
ceding its power to execute to the
National Assembly, if it was the
case,” he said.
He said, “It will also help to clear the
allegation once and for all, if any
presidency official not only from the
time past but currently, could come
forward and explain the true position
of the so called constituency
projects. Doing so would at least set
the records straight.”

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The Senate on Thursday dismissed a
scathing attack by former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, saying Mr.
Obasanjo merely sought to disrespect
the National Assembly by accusing its
members of extensive corruption.
Mr Obasanjo, in a furious outburst
Wednesday, had accused members of
the Senate and House of
Representatives of stealing
constituency funds, and extorting
government officials they supervise
through blackmail and intimidation.
The spokesperson for the Senate,
Enyinnaya Abaribe, said in a
statement that Mr. Obasanjo’s claim
about constituency project funds
was an outright lie aimed at
misinforming Nigerians.
“The allegation as spurious as it
were. Its very distant from the truth
and is nowhere near reality,” Mr.
Abaribe said.​
“President Obasanjo for the
avoidance of doubt, was the initiator
of the constituency project in the
year 2000 as a means of ensuring
that projects were fairly spread
across the country using the
Senatorial zones as the spring board.
“To ensure execution of the projects,
President Obasanjo again factored
the constituency projects into the
annual budgets to be implemented by
the executive depending on availability
of funds. That is to say that no
lawmaker ever comes close to the
funds or even determine the
contractor for the said projects or
when the said contract would be
awarded,” Mr. Abaribe said.
He said it was curious that Mr.
Obasanjo would turn around after
over 10 years of initiating such a
project to accuse the National
Assembly of misusing such money.
“Such allegation stands logic on its
head, as it amounts to an indictment
of the Presidency for wilfully
contravening the budget laws by
ceding its power to execute to the
National Assembly, if it was the
case,” he said.
He said, “It will also help to clear the
allegation once and for all, if any
presidency official not only from the
time past but currently, could come
forward and explain the true position
of the so called constituency
projects. Doing so would at least set
the records straight.”

OBJ is right in the case of National assembly but I will advise him to resign from media cause he rarely says something reasonable now.