Popular ThisDay newspaper columnist, Waziri Adio speak up and clear
the air on false accusations that Muhammadu Buhari,
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) was ‘sectional’ in the widely-acclaimed impact of the
Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) he chaired under the Sanni
Abacha regime.
In a series of, tweets, 35 in total Waziri made it clear that
“the South got 70% in terms of amount located, and the
North got 30%”.
The tweets are very enlightening. :
Muhammadu Buhari
In a few minutes, I will start tweeting about the Petroleum
Special Trust Fund (PTF) headed @ThisIsBuhari btw May
'95 and May '99.
2. There have been allegations that the PTF projects were
lopsided in favour of the north, aimed at portraying
@ThisIsBuhari as sectional.
3. There have also been allegations of fraud in PTF, meant
to show that @ThisIsBuhari not as clean as portrayed.
4. I will provide some background on PTF and present some
facts based on public documents and leave you to draw
your conclusions.
5. PTF was set up by Gen Abacha in May '95, headed by
@ThisIsBuhari, with Chief Tayo Akpata as Secretary.
Other members representing different zones were Y. Gusau,
A Talib, Rufus Giwa, Prof. Chimere Ikoku, Prof. JP Clark,
D.B Zang.
7. PTF was charged with using portion of increase in fuel
price to rehabilitate roads, schools, hospitals, water
schemes n provide supplies
8. Despite charges of being a parallel govt, at no point was
PTF budget more than 10% of total budget of the federation.
9. Widely circulated allegation of lopsided siting of PTF
projects by Afenifere a bit exaggerated.
10. It is true that out of the 13,090km roads rehabilitated,
32% in the south and 68% in the north. But that's half the
story.
11. In terms of km, 7.3% of d rehabilitated roads were in SE;
8.5% in SW;16.25 in SS; 21.1% in NW; 23.4% in NE; and
23.5% in NC.
12. But it is also true that the landmass varies among
zones and same with degree of difficulty and cost.
13. A look at the cost of roads in different zones and the
overall allocation to zones in all PTF projects show a
different picture.
N77. 2b was committed to roads out of the total of N187b
allocated to PTF till May 99.
15. Of the N77.2b to roads, SW got N 9.7 b; SE, N14.5b;
SS, N 30. 5b. This means SW got 12.6% of road budget;
SE, 18.8%; SS, 39.5%.
16. Of d N77.2b committed to roads, NE got N7.1b; NC,
N7. 4b; NW, N7.9b, meaning NE got 9.2%, NC got 9.6%
and NW 10.3%.
17. This shows that in terms of cost, the variation btw north
and south reversed in favour of d south.
18. Under roads, the south got 70% in terms of amount
allocated and the north got 30%.
19. It may sound counter intuitive, but it is also an
established fact that road construction costs more in the
south than in the north.
20. Those circulating facts about kilometers of roads
possibly also have information about cost of the roads and
total allocation.
21. Possibly, they selectively chose the data set that will
help their argument that @ThisIsBuhari is sectional.
22. Also, of the total N187b allocated to PTF, the south got
more than the north.
23. In the 6 areas under PTF, SE got N26.9b; SW, N28.8b;
SS, N49b. Representing 15% for SE, 15.4% for SW, and
26.2% for SS.
24. That is a total of 56.7% for the south out of the entire
budget of PTF.
25. Of d total PTF allocation, NC got N20bn; NE, N26b; and
NW N34. 9b. Meaning 10.7% for NC; 13.9% for NE; and
18.7% for NW.
26. That's 43.3% for the North out of the total N187b
allocation to PTF.
27. On allegations of fraud in PTF under @ThisIsBuhari, it
is important to bear a few things in mind.
28. OBJ set up two interim mgt committees on PTF, before
eventually asking PTF to be wounded up.
29. First committee was under Dr. Haroun Adamu. 2nd
under Alh. Garba Mubi. Dr Adamu Maina - Waziri was
asked to wind up PTF.
30. For two years, police and SSS interogated officials of
Afri-Project Consortium, project consultant to PTF.
31. Up till today, no one charged or prosecuted. In fact two
of d founders of Afri-Project Consortium later served in
OBJ's govt.
32. Murtala Aliyu was minister of state for works, and
Amina Mohammed served as SSA on the MDGs and is now
an adviser to the UN Sec-Gen.
33. However, anytime @ThisIsBuhari is planning to contest
some people dredge up allegations of sectionalism and
fraud in PTF.
34. Sometimes it is claimed that no one prosecuted so as
not to embarrass @ThisIsBuhari. But what does that say
about those making d claims?
35/35. This is it for now on PTF and @ThisIsBuhari.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/26/anytime-buhari-contests-they-dredge-false-accusations-sectionalism-ptf”-–-columnist

I didn't bother to read this piece. Why? Because they are trying to tell us MUHAMMADU BUHARI is sin-less. Ladies and gentlemen the last person who had such attribute was Yeshua christi. Buhari is no JESUS thank you.

Why not write a coherent and proper article that can be rebutted. Twitter na hit and run.

klodike:
I didn't bother to read this piece. Why? Because they are trying to tell us MUHAMMADU BUHARI is sin-less. Ladies and gentlemen the last person who had such attribute was Yeshua christi. Buhari is no JESUS thank you.

he is not sinless but better than ur mentor/godfather

Must he always contest?

okpamson15:
Must he always contest?

I believe Americans also asked Abraham Lincoln that same question back then, but 9 trials, he finally became president of the US

rexoluj:


I believe Americans also asked Abraham Lincoln that same question back then, but 9 trials, he finally became president of the US

lincoln was a wise education man with better certificate, but thing about our own, X general what is his arm and focus?