A minister
who served under the former Goodluck Jonathan administration, stole $6billion
(more than N1.2 trillion), the governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, said
Monday.
He said the details were provided last week by United States
officials during President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit there. Mr. Oshiomhole, 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,” Mr. Oshiomhole said in response to criticisms of the trip by the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
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.
He said the country was being very patient with the PDP,
otherwise Nigerians would have been “stoning” anyone carrying the badge of the
party.
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 they issues were, leaving
others outside the country “frustrated”.
Recalling a chat with the US Assistant Secretary of State,
Johnnie Carson, on the difference between the two administrations, Mr.
Oshiomhole said Mr. Carson told him that each time they thought that there was
light at the end of the tunnel for Nigeria and it is time to encourage them to
build on it, “you we would wake up the following day under president Jonathan
to find out that even the tunnel had been removed”.
“Now last week, this same Carson cheered the president’s address
at the Institute of Peace. And he said ‘we now have a man of enormous integrity;
one that has shown so much faith in the democratic process; one that refused to
be frustrated even in the face of massively rigged elections,” he said.
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