The
immediate past President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan reportedly
shared a whopping N150b just two weeks before the 2015 general election,
according to VP Yemi Osinbajo.
VP Osinbajo
While speaking during the 7th presidential quarterly business forum
for private sector stakeholders which held at the old banquet hall of
the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo,
alleged that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government “essentially shared” N150 billion two weeks to the 2015 polls.
According to TheCable,
the VP said while the current administration with less revenue, has
increased capital funding by 400% in power, works and housing, defence,
transportation, agricultural sectors, the Jonathan administration with
surplus funds, spent N14 billion on agriculture in 2014, N15billion on
transportation, and a total of N153 billion on infrastructure in three
years.
Osinbajo said while the government of President Muhammadu Buhari
has not completely dealt with corruption, it has demonstrated enough
political will to reverse the trend.
He said: “In one single transaction, a few weeks to the 2015
elections, sums of N100billion and $295million were just frittered away
by a few.
“Nobody should talk about the economy when you have this kind
of huge leakages and huge corruption. Corruption that completely makes
nonsense of even what you are allocating to capital projects.
“We saw from the presentation of the minister of finance that
N14 billion was spent on agriculture in 2014, transportation N15
billion, so the total spent on infrastructure in those three years were
N153 billion and in two weeks before the elections, N150 billion was
essentially shared.
“So, if your total infrastructure spending is N150 billion and
you can share N153 billion, that is completely incredible. That sort of
thing doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world. And when we are talking
about the economy, we must simply understand that that is the problem.”
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