During ongoing debates in the Senate about the 2018 budget, the common sense senator was quoted as saying that “I called President Obasanjo on phone two days ago and he said to me that the National Orientation Agency was necessary when we had no political parties. What is the value of the National Orientation Agency in today’s world for instance? Yet billions of naira is spent in it. Let us look at agencies that make no sense and sell them to staff. FRCN has 8,000 workers. Sell it to them. Sell NTA to the staff. Voice of Nigeria… Who listens to Voice of Nigeria? Sell it. If the staff want to buy, let them buy it. Set up a cooperative, like Awolowo did, sell it to them. If we spend 71 per cent on recurrent expenditure, we will never get out of this predicament.”

But he failed to recall that he was made Director General of the NTA by Obasanjo between 1999 -2003, and was given hundreds of millions to buy broadcasting equipment for the NTA. why did he accept the job or is it now that he realized that these organs are no longer relevant in the scheme of things