The
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has
called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ask for the refund of the $16 billion
allegedly expended on the power sector under the administration of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He said Mr Obasanjo should be asked to pay back
the money.
Mr Oshiomhole said this on Tuesday after the
former chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, handed over to him at a
ceremony held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
He said Mr Buhari did well for calling out Mr
Obasanjo over the alleged expenditure, but should go a step further to ensure
the former president returns the money if there is no explanation for what it
was used for.
“So, $16billion spent, the more dollars they
spent, the more darkness the people suffered. Now the questions I had in my
mind were, maybe because the president has not yet proceeded to now ask the
follow-up questions. Since we don’t find the power, then, you must bring the
$16billion that you spent. If he doesn’t do that, then the accusations of
limited anti-corruption may begin to have some currency.
“So, to assist PDP to overcome this their distinction,
our president needs to do the needful. After all, it is already on record what
other presidents didn’t do, with regards to the issue of MKO Abiola, and the
criminal manner by which the election was nullified, and people pretended that,
that was never an issue, the president showed courage.
“That same courage should not fail him, so that
he can proceed to recover the $16billion back into the treasury from the man
who superintended over the spending of that money.”
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