Nigeria - Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State during an interview with SaharaTV has said he has nothing personal against former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, but that she has to admit she mismanaged the economy. 

“What we are saying is [former Minister Okonjo-Iweala] should accept responsibility that she failed to manage the economy properly. Even when we argue that the economy was in distress, she was always on record saying that everything was fine, the economy was strong, and that we’re the largest economy on the continent.”

On the stolen 20 billion dollars Governor Oshiomhole said, “remember when [former CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi], who you can’t dismiss, talked about billions of dollars being diverted. Ngozi was quick to say no, that’s it’s not 20 billion, it’s only 10.8 billion dollars. Even that is offensive to a good conscience.”

He said Okonjo-Iweala “needs to come clean. She should accept responsibility, having accepted the role of a coordinating minister. Too many things went wrong with the Nigerian economy.

"In Washington, everybody is talking about billions of dollars of Nigerian crude money that was taken. [Former Minister Okonjo-Iweala] wasn’t raising alarms, people were raising alarms and [Okonjo-Iweala] shut them up.”

"There’s nothing personal about it, if anything I consider [Okonjo-Iweala] a friend. But she knows that my friendship is subordinated to the bigger national interests.”