Rotimi Amaechi in a recent Interview with Forbes TV, the Minister of Transport released a statement narrating the part he played in the letter Sanusi sent to Formaer President Goodluck Jonathan about the missing $49.8 billion from NNPC account
The Emir in an interview said the letter caused problems between Jonathan and himself after someone exposed it to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Sanusi confirmed that Amechi was behind the leaked letter to the public

Read below Ameachi’s released statement;

“To put the records straight, we want to categorically state that a concerned and patriotic Nigerian who felt sufficiently troubled with what was happening then, gave a copy of the Sanusi letter to Amaechi, in Amaechi’s capacity, at the time, as Chairman of Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF. Like Amaechi, we should appreciate that concerned Nigerian’s patriotism. When Amaechi got the letter, he spoke with Sanusi, who was still the CBN governor, to confirm the authenticity of the letter. Sanusi confirmed to Amaechi that he wrote the letter. During their conversation, Amaechi made it abundantly clear to the then CBN governor that the bleeding of the nation had to be stopped, all non-remitted funds remitted and that he (Amaechi) was going to use the letter to do whatever was in the best interest of the nation and Nigerians, which was the stoppage of the non-remittance and the recovery of all the non-remitted funds from oil sale. The CBN governor didn’t agree with Amaechi on the way forward. Considering that the letter was given to Amaechi as Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, he shared the letter with his colleague governors first, and with Senator Bukola Saraki (now Senate President), who before and around that period, was doing some work or/and investigation around the oil sector in the Senate. Around that period, a delegation from the United States of America government, from the offices of the Secretaries of State and Defense, visited Amaechi in Port Harcourt to discuss the issue of oil theft in Nigeria. From their records, they gave Amaechi figures of about $7 billion, annually, that was being lost to oil theft in Nigeria. They were discussing the issue and figures of oil theft, and that was how the CBN governor’s letter to President Jonathan came up. In the presence of journalists covering the visit, Amaechi brought out the Sanusi letter to the visiting American delegation to buttress the point that Nigeria was losing far more money to non-remittance of proceeds from oil sale into the Federation Account, which everyone seemed to concur, was in itself, another form and another dimension to the issue of oil theft. To suggest, infer or even extrapolate that Amaechi
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