The Edo
State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has lambasted outgoing finance minister,
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, over her claims that states received N2.92 trillion excess
crude money between 2011 and 2014 with little to show, the latest in a series
of tit-for-tat between governors and the minister over allegations of
mismanagement of oil revenues.
Mr.
Oshiomhole accused the minister of gross mismanagement of the Nigerian economy,
saying she was merely feeding Nigerians with half-truths in the last four
years.
Mr.
Oshiomhole said the minister has herself to blame as she ran the Excess Crude
Account as a “one-man show”.
The
governor said Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s recent outcry against oil marketers over
falsification of fuel subsidy claims may have been out of in fear about the
incoming President, Muhammadu Buhari.
“It
is quite intriguing that with barely few days left in office, she has suddenly
woken up from her slumber to realize that oil marketers have all along been
falsifying subsidy claims and defrauding the nation of billions of naira and
dollars,” the governor said.
He
said the person best placed to explain the state of the country’s economy at
the moment was Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala.
As a member of the National Economic Council, Mr. Oshiomhole said he had spoken out publicly at different times about the way the economy was managed by Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala.
As a member of the National Economic Council, Mr. Oshiomhole said he had spoken out publicly at different times about the way the economy was managed by Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala.
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