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Former governor of Abia State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, yesterday blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for instigating most of fraud allegations leveled against him while he served as governor.
Orji who made the disclosure yesterday while on Channels Television Programme, Sunday Politics also alleged that the former President shared $16bn power funds among his loyalists.
While responding to questions on allegations that corruption fight by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is a witch-hunt, especially as many believed that charges against him were dropped after he dumped PDP for APC, he said he was never witch-hunted by President Buhari.
“I have never been one (witch-hunted). It was former President Obasanjo that made me be one. I served Abia people with all sincerity.
“Even the PDP Obasanjo ran as the President if it’s a company, myself and few others will own 90% of it. I gave him the first N500miliion in 1998,” he added.
Kalu who was a former PDP governor stressed that President Obasanjo if the need be should be probed by the Buhari-led administration.
According to him, those who are calling others corrupt, dine amidst corruption.
“If Obasanjo’s government deserves to be probed, he should be probed. I don’t see anything wrong in probing any government that has taken Nigeria’s people money. The money does not belong to Buhari. The money belongs to Nigerian people.”
There was a huge corruption under Obasanjo’s tenure, I remember that I wrote him a letter when he tagged all governors as corrupt when he was President and I replied him that I was an exception to the list, it was first published by Thisday.
When Obasanjo was President we had just about 2,000 mega watts, but today under Buhari we have over 7,000 megawatts, which is three times better, but Nigeria needs to generate about 60,000 megawatts to ensure that the country is served constant power.
When asked about the danger Obasanjo’s party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) portends on Buhari’s re-election, Kalu replied. “Obasanjo only serves himself, he doesn’t think about Nigerians. He has lots of things [selfish inetrests] under his table. Anything that from Obasanjo can never be in the interest of the people, he wants everything to be done by him.”
Kalu also alluded to the missing $16 billion power fund which was recently raised by President Buhari, the former governor posited that the funds was shared between Obasanjo and his allies.
” $16 billion power is missing, there was no project done with it that money, it was shared among people who were loyal to Obasanjo, count all his friends and you will find those who shared the money”
“Our public assets were also sold, Nigerians were deceived, the sales were not properly done, the assets were dashed to those loyal to Obasanjo”
I don’t see anything wrong in probing Obasanjo, if someone has taken monies belonging to a country then that person should be probe.