Governor Oshiomole has revealed that a minister who served under the former Goodluck Jonathan administration, stole $6billion.
According to a report by Premium Times, Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said on Monday that a minister who served under the former Goodluck Jonathan administration, allegedly stole $6 billion (more than N1.2 trillion).
He said the details were provided last week by United States officials during President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit there. The ex Labour boss, who was part of the delegation, did not give the name of the minister.
“We have moved away from a president that doesn’t seem to know his powers to one that understands that he is a president of the country in the continent.”
He spoke on Monday at the state house where he and the Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, as members of the APC governors’ forum, briefed President Buhari on the outcome of a discussion held with APC Senators Sunday.
“PDP destroyed the country - I mean from the lips of American officials; senior officials of the state department. They said one minister under PDP cornered as much as $6billion, and the man said even by Washington standard that is earth-quaking,” he said.
Mr. Oshiomhole said the PDP government plundered Nigeria, destroyed its institutions, damaged the military, converted the NTA to a party megaphone, destroyed the SSS, went after opposition, and compromised even student unions.
“We are a very patient people. If we were not a patient people, anybody wearing the tag of PDP ought to feel very unsafe because you are all victims- all of us here,” he said.
Mr. Oshiomole said under the PDP, there was no law as they were law to themselves. He quoted American officials as saying that Mr. Jonathan was seen as a confused president who did not know what the issues were, leaving others outside the country “frustrated”.
