Dr Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, has stated that
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state is suffering numerical diarrhea
after he alleged that she took $1billion to fund the re-election bid of
former president Goodluck Jonathan. In statement issued by Paul
C Nwabuikwu, media adviser Okonjo-Iweala, he described Oshiomhole’s
accusations as “another false, baseless allegation against Okonjo-Iweala
by Oshiomhole.
“The allegation by Governor Adams
Oshiomhole of Edo State that former Minister of Finance Dr Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala spent $1 billion out of the Excess Crude Account to fund
the re-election bid of former President Jonathan is the kind of
ludicrously false statement that has unfortunately become a trademark of
the Governor in his public campaign of falsehood against Dr
Okonjo-Iweala,”
“The statement is just another example of the numerical diarrhea that seems to have afflicted His Excellency in recent times in his effort to damage the reputation of the former Minister.
“He has, within the last few months, asked Dr Okonjo-Iweala to explain all kinds of totally wild and unsubstantiated
Okonjo-Iweala then stated that Oshiomhole’s accusations totally lack any credibility. ” Governor Oshiomhole’s published comments also contain other falsehoods. For instance, he quoted Dr Okonjo-Iweala as saying that she and the Finance Commissioners of the 36 states approved the spending of $2.1 billion out of the Excess Crude Account, adding that the Commissioners had disowned the statement. This is also a complete distortion.
“Dr Okonjo-Iweala never said the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) approved spending out of the ECA. Rather as the Commissioners themselves stated, the former Minister of State Finance informed them that former President Jonathan approved the expenditure to end the debilitating fuel queues across the country.
“As Nigerians know, the Finance Ministry under Okonjo-Iweala regularly published details of revenue allocations from the ECA in national media. So Oshiomhole’s tortured “calculations” based on his “four figure tables” are mere political numbers conjured to achieve a political purpose. Nigerians can see through the elaborate antics.
“Governor Oshiomhole’s latest statement, like earlier ones, labours to give the impression that the entire FAAC process which involves the Federal Government and the 36 states of the Federation is a personal monopoly of Dr Okonjo-Iweala.
“This is, of course not true. FAAC is a long standing national platform for allocating revenues chaired by the Minister of State Finance. The governor’s insistence on pushing this clearly fictional narrative underscores his desperation.
“It is instructive that Governor Oshiomhole is a key member of the committee set up by the National Economic Council to investigate the ECA spending. His continuing attacks against Dr Okonjo-Iweala seem to suggest that he has lost confidence in this platform which he deployed to make some of his initial false and baseless allegations. The Governor does not seem to appreciate that he is undermining the very credibility of the committee.
“Once again, we ask: why are Oshiomhole and his cohorts so ready to sacrifice truth, precedent and decency in this political witch hunt against Dr Okonjo-Iweala? We are confident that they will fail because truth will triumph,” the statement read.
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Enyinda Nathaniel Okey and 5 others like this.
Joe Okpe
Is
good to tell oshomole hw his tatanic words are arrogant, the woman
insulted him bcs he always castigate others n forget his own problem
Endy Edeson
@joe; that's true, i think Oshiomohle has questions to answer in the future
1Bekere Becky Afaka
its not an insult! the man is sick! if not,why marry a 30 year old white skin lady!?
Mbah Cynthia Nkeiruka
sisita Becky the wife never reach 30 oooo lolz
Onose Iyere Iluobe
i like dis! he should do n shut up
Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
So someone can't marry a young, white skinned lady? Couldn't have figured.
Monday Onoja
Heheheheheheheh
Nwachukwu C. Jonathan
all of them are sick, including the so called formal minister of finance
Uchenna Victor
He
should concentrate more on clearing his name from the efcc instead of
witch hunting the former minister without any fact to back his so called
accusations
Polycarpz Igboon
When did she become Osho'baba's personal Physician?????
Enyinda Nathaniel Okey
THE
WAY OSHIOMHOLE DAILY TALKS ABOUT THIS WOMAN... IT IS NOW CURIOUS. ONLY
IDLE AND STUPID MEN HAVE THAT MUCH TIME TO TALK ABOUT PEOPLE, LEAVING
THEIR OWN JOBS UNDONE