EFCC report exonerated
me – Nnamani
By PADE OLAPOJU
Thursday, October 5, 2006
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Gov. Nnamani |
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Contrary to the belief that Enugu State was indicted by the
report of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
Enugu State Governor, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, says that the
EFCC report rather exonerated him.
According to the governor, who spoke in Enugu, the EFCC report
only said that there was variation on contracts and did not
take into consideration many things.
“The EFCC report is an exoneration. It shows clearly
that these contracting companies do not belong to government
officials. You can see that they were commended, exonerated
in the sense that the EFCC report had commendation for the
contractors. We had statements in the report saying that the
contract prices were under-priced, we had statement saying
that the roads were done very well and the quality of the
job, the building fine and commendable. So, if you look at
the EFCC report, if you really look at it, not the first reading,
not even the second reading, the third reading, forgetting
the theatre and drama which is of course, inherent in African
culture… it is an exoneration of the government of Enugu
State,” Nnamani said.
The governor spoke on these and many other things.
The EFCC Chairman was before the Senate recently and made
some allegations against Enough State. What is your response?
I will like to stay on the positive side to talk about the
progress and development here in Enugu State. However, if
you insist, and the fact that the issue is on the front burner,
as it were, I can respond. The EFCC reports, as you know,
borders on three major issues. One is the issue of contractual
obligation. Two is in the issue of my estimated net or asset
value. Third, the issue of local government allocations.
On the first issue, we see the EFCC report as an exoneration,
an exoneration in the sense that we feel that with what appears
to be a price variance in the value with which the government
awarded the contract and the value of the assessment of their
experts or consultants, the total contract value is about
a little over N30 billion.
The EFCC engineers or experts who spent three days in Enugu
admitted they saw about 70 percent of the projects and said
that, contrary to that, the projects should have been valued
about N2.8 billion less. We believe that that variance is
not statistically significant and could be subject to either
an increase or decrease based on the valuation of other consultants
or experts. In addition, as you know, clearly, the contract
value could be subject to energy cost, in terms of fuel, diesel.
It could be subject to labour cost. The rate could be subject
to availability of materials. It could even be subject to
climatic changes, vis-à-vis, and the weather. For us,
it is an exoneration. If in this age of all sorts of accusations
about contract inflation, there is price variation of N2.8
billion on a N30 billion total contract value, I believe it
is something that is commendable and within the norms.
Also, part of the accusations is one regarding the ownership
of the contracting company. You can see clearly that the government
was exonerated in that regard. Certainly, the report did not
have any finding regarding the ownership of this company by
government. On the issue of the wealth of the governor, people
say there is an estimated N50billion asset value that is about
400 million dollars. EFCC reports suspects that N2.8 billion
was the contract variation. When you look at the net allocation
between 1999 and 2003, which amounted to about N30billion,
you find out that it just defeats that argument. Between 1999
and 2003, we got about N30 billion. From there, we paid salary
and other emoluments and ran the government.
Remember, these were the early days of allocation of N100
million a month, N400 million a month, N500 million a month
and now N1.5 billion a month, with expenditures of about N800
million to N1 billion. About N250 million goes for teachers’
salary per month, N250 million for civil servants’ salary,
the rest took care of other leave allowance facilities, pension,
subventions to parastatals and service, which will give you
about NI billion. It is only about 500 million left to pay
for contract obligations and other emergencies of the government.
It is not possible. That is certainly not correct.
Then the third issue has to do with the local government.
We have stated, repeatedly, that local governments are issues
within the purview and authority of the state government as
confirmed by the constitution and the Supreme Court. It therefore,
becomes a constitutional paradox as to whether an agency that
cannot oversee an institution can have its sub-agency undertake
the same responsibility. Therefore, if the Federal Government
cannot oversee or supervise local government, I doubt whether
sub-if its agency can do that. Having said that, outside the
issue of legalities, I can say clearly that when it comes
to issue of fraud, embezzlement, even the man in the street,
even the NGOs can oversee any institution. Without being legalistic,
we can say that our allocations were handled appropriately
as confirmed by the Joint Local Government Account Committee
and the House of Assembly, through its committee on local
government matters.
The other area that they also talked about was the ownership
of companies by relatives of the governor. Yes, we never denied
that fact. We have stated repeatedly that those investments
are laudable investments and we are happy to have them here
in Enugu State. Our relatives are free to do business anywhere
in the world, especially here in Nigeria, under constitutional
democracy, more so as they are contributing to the economy
of Enugu, as long as there is no diversion of government fund
to these investments. To summarize this issue, I must give
credit to President Olusegun Obasanjo and to the Federal Government
for this anti-corruption agency, as part of actions to move
Nigeria into a globalized world. It has yielded fruits, in
terms of removing the so-called pariah status of the country
and inflow of investments.
I believe we can give credit to EFCC too, that its activities
have played a major role in the areas of sensitization, in
the area of enlightenment, in this field of anti-corruption.
There is an awareness. For us in Enugu State, there is an
awareness. Where otherwise brown envelopes would have been
passed, they are not passed anymore. It gives us the opportunity,
during this summer of our administration, to dot our I’s
and cross our T’s. Even though the investigation was
and still is not pleasant, it has enriched us. It has made
us much stronger. It has made us much aware of our responsibilities.
It has also exposed areas of improvement. There are areas
of the report we could use to improve governance in Enugu
State. We did not even wait for the report. As soon as the
EFCC came, by the time they were here, three or five days,
we knew the areas they were concerned with and we had to act
on those areas.
The EFCC also said that the contracts were inflated…And
again, could you tell us the rationale of stating that the
Obasanjo government is a God-sent to Nigeria?
We certainly would never do that. For what targeted purpose?
I have just proved to you that what we run in Enugu State
is a government of excellence; our excellence would not permit
such in our system. Having said that, to your second question,
Nigerians have achieved a lot. We have a country that is in
the summer of history, a country that is certainly mature
in growth, development maturity. We can say that we have to
talk about Nigeria in the context of its leadership. In the
PDP a few weeks ago, we designated President Olusegun Obasanjo
as the father of modern Nigeria, father of modern Nigeria
in the sense that no individual alive in this country has
shown a clear parallel in the area of evolution between man
and country.
A leader that has bestrode the firmament of the nation state,
even in few years prior to independence; a leader that has
played in the area of Bukavu in Congo, involved in the immediate
post-independence stages and evolution of the Nigerian Army,
activities that saw us through the civil war, the post civil
war rehabilitation, the immediate civil war rehabilitation
and the establishment of peace; a leader that saw us through
what appears to be the first formal hand over from military
government to a civil government; a leader whose period in
government saw what appears to be Nigeria’s own Marshal
Plan, with expansion of various areas of development, infrastructure
roads -- Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, Enugu-Ontsha expressway,
expansions in the universities, teaching hospitals expansion
of the airports, sea ports and river ports, expansions in
the areas of agriculture and of course today’s Nigerian
diplomacy came of age and now a leader that is seeing us through
a re-awaking, a re-engineering.
That is why we say he is the father of modern Nigeria. Seven
years of governance that have seen active efforts to globalize
Nigeria in the three cannons of globalization, information
technology, privatization, stakeholders developmental governance,
a reform process that has seen the expansion of the telecom
industry, the so called GSM; has seen the liberalization of
energy sector, has seen the attendant effect of economic diplomacy,
with debt relief and of course, reform in the public sector
and of course the banking sector. Certainly, 46 fruitful years
and the past seven have marked the crescendo of that fruitfulness.
With what you have done in Enugu State, would you say that
you have achieved your best for the state?
We have had time to go through this, repeatedly. What God
has given us the opportunity to do in Enugu State is what
can be described as ordered development, ordered development
in response to what we saw as an urgent need to provide things
on the ground; what we describe as dividends of democracy,
things on ground for our people in exchange for their votes:
aggressive infrastructure development. That was what we did
for the first years of governance, building roads, providing
water, providing rural electrification and providing enabling
environment for the private sector to thrive. We felt that
it wasn’t just the forces, as it were, that would protect
democracy. We felt that the people were going to protect democracy
and if they were going to do that, democracy had to mean something
to them, something concrete, which we defined as dividends
of democracy. That was the first thing we did.
As we moved on to the second tenure, we had the opportunity
to be exposed to certain people and certain programmes. We
started talking about poverty, we started talking about the
Millennium Development Goals, with over 40 quantifiable indicators
in looking at the problem of alleviation of poverty by 2015,
the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, looking at
poverty, looking at hunger, looking at gender empowerment
and parity, looking at Universal Basic Education, infant mortality,
maternal mortality, looking at HIV/AIDS/malaria, looking at
environmental sustainability and global partnership.
We now decided to partner with development agencies towards
poverty reduction, towards achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals. We now went through a process of stakeholders’
developmental governance, to first define poverty in Enugu
State and work out a parameter to alleviate poverty.
This parameter could be the sole guide for developmental governance.
We looked at poverty, either in terms of monetary definition;
that is poverty of those that earn less than one dollar a
day. We looked at defining poverty in terms of capability
approach, where the system does not provide an environment
for people to maximize or express their capability. We looked
at poverty in terms of social exclusion, where the system
excluded some people, either due to race, due to age, or due
to infirmity. We also looked at poverty in terms of participatory
index, which is what obtains today.
Based on that, we set out guidelines to attack poverty in
Enugu State, which we did through health and human services,
what we call the School Meal plus programme, first implemented
here in Enugu State, where school kids are given one meal
a day. It is called School Meal plus because it is more than
a meal. It is a programme that provides a meal to a child.
Prior to that, the child went through some medical evaluation,
to check for morphometric data, to check for the weight, to
check for the height, look at the vision, the hearing, look
at dentition, for data collection. That is, for the index
child, for the siblings, are they in the school? Are they
in the health care system? For the mother, is she in the antenatal
care system? It was also a partnership programme. As you know,
Enugu State is actively involved with development partners,
DFID and other agencies. It was a programme we did in partnership
with DFID, UNICEF and other agencies.
In addition to the meal at school, we provided vitamin supplementation,
provided malaria and other drug supplementations, where needed.
What we achieved in the area of poverty is a part of the Millennium
Development Goals. By giving food to that child, you are decreasing
hunger; the fact that it is home grown and prepared within
the system, it reduces poverty. The School Meal plus programme
has shown an increase in weight over time for the index child.
So it means you are having effect on child mortality.
The fact that the programme was associated with a 200 percent
increase in enrollment, total increase enrollment, not just
increase of kids but total enrollment, you are working on
the Universal Basic Education. Because boys come, girls come,
gender parity. So far, there is component for maternal care,
you are affecting maternal mortality, same with HIV/AIDS/malaria.
It is home crown because of the association with other partners.
The same areas where you are implementing the School Meal
plus programme, you are also working with a rural water and
sanitation agency.
We are doing VIP latrines and we are also doing boreholes,
shallow bole-holes if needed and through rural electrification
board, we are providing transformers there and some component
of environmental sustainability and of course, because we
are working with development partners, there is a component
of global partnership. This is just an illustration of how
one programme can effectively demonstrate a holistic developmental
governance.
We also had other areas, reform process, in the health system,
with our health district – Enugu has what is called
formalized health district system, a programme with DFID,
through Partnership for Transforming Health System and also
through the health procurement project, we got assistance
from the government of the United Kingdom . We also have reforms
in the Criminal Justice System, Access to Justice and now
Security, Justice and Growth, reform in our criminal justice
system, with refurbishment of ministry of justice, provision
of computers, generators, with capacity building for our traditional
rulers in the areas of alternative dispute resolution and
in the areas of formal documentation of their activities.
Also, a Citizenship Rights and Mediation Centre and also reforms
in our land registry.
In the areas of wealth creation, we also work with an advisory
centre – Small and Medium Scale Advisory centre –
and also development of business bank and also development
of community business organizations. These are communities
around the junction towns, junction towns little Obollo-Afor,
like Orji-River, Emene, Ninth Mile, Ozalla four corners. We
also looked at budgetary reforms, budgetary reforms in the
sense that we do what you call right sizing. And also, we
did identification, looked at our staff. We did computerized
payrolls and also computerized ID so that right now, all workers
are on the computer that leads to a decrease even in the wage
bill because the issue of ghost workers was put to rest.
We also got a programme called budgetary evaluation and management
team where government, together with NGOs, monitored the body
and its implementation. Of course, we also did publication
and dissemination of information in the areas of public sector
reforms. Our civil service went through reforms and parastatals
and library board and fire service went through reforms in
the areas of revenue generation, in the areas of operative
cost, in the areas of capacity building and the areas of service
delivery, service delivery in term of response time.
I believe the best parameter to assess the success
was the benchmarking process, the SEEDS benchmarking
process done by development partners and the National Planning
Commission, a process in which Enugu State scored highest
and it looked at vision, looked at service delivery, looked
at budgetary and fiscal policy and looked at transparency
and communication. I believe that just as the EFCC, I don’t
see any other parameter to assess governance than parameters
of non-partisan development partners, working with the National
Planning Commission, an assessment in which Enugu State came
number one in terms of performance. This, in a nutshell, is
to tell you what has been happening.
In addition to this, we still embarked on certain aggressive
infrastructure programmes to secure the future of our children.
We built the permanent site of the our state University of
Science and Technology sitting on 600 hectares of virgin land
with four hostel blocks, each hostel taking about 4,000 students
with rooms en-suite. We’ve built eight faculty buildings,
specific, in terms of what was needed, with an administrative
block, auditorium, two cafeteria, lecture theatre, library,
chapel, VC’s lodge and 100 units of junior staff quarters,
medium staff and senior staff quarters and of course, provided
infrastructure, asphalt road, electricity, water, generators.
We also built a Teaching Hospital, state of the art Teaching
Hospital already commissioned, has the same hostel, clinical
science building, laboratories, anatomy lab, lecture theatres,
auditorium, and all the facilities for a modern Teaching Hospital
can compare to the best in Africa and certainly could be described
as best in Nigeria. You can go take a look. We built the first
underground tunnel in Nigeria. We also built judiciary headquarters,
computerized 18 courtroom chamber buildings, with a different
chamber for the chief judge. We also embarked on an international
conference centre, nothing comparable, 5, 000 main bowl, 2,
000 medium bowl and 1, 000 small bowl.
I will say that it is 75 percent or more completed. You can
take a look. We also dualized a lot of roads, but more importantly,
we are building capacity, building human capacity through
stakeholder driven reforms. We also secured our state, working
with the joint patrol by the police, the army and the air
force and providing vehicles, over 30 vehicles, to the security
agencies within this period, and many communication engagements
and I can tell you that crime has dropped in our state compared
to other states. We also built capacity in other areas, in
the areas of legislature, in the area of NGOs and we did a
lot in the area of HIV/AIDS in Enugu . Certainly, Enugu is
working.
Have you achieved all you wanted to achieve?
No, we’ve not, certainly we’ve not. We’ve
had limitations in the areas of fund. We’ve limitation
in the area of capacity and one can say that since January
this year, we’ve also had limitations due to EFCC investigations.
You know officers of government were taken to Lagos , several
times. Contractors and their associates taken to Lagos many
times and we’ve tried, despite that, to do a lot in
completing these projects, but I can say clearly, we lost
a lot of days this year as a result to responses to these
investigations, including travels to Lagos.
The game plan of the opposition and part of the reasons Enugu
remains on the front burner of EFCC seems to be to make sure
that you lose your firm grip on the party structure. Do you
share that view?
I don’t share the view of Enugu being on the front burner
regarding EFCC. Enugu is a new comer to EFCC. Our own started
in January, others have been going to EFCC years, weeks, and
months. We are certainly not on the front burner. We refuse
to have EFCC being the issue of the front burner. What is
on the front burner in Enugu State is developmental governance,
excellence in governance, and front burner in the sense that
the president came here and confirmed it and said that Enugu
is working. Our development partners confirmed it, 14 European
ambassadors came and confirmed it and of course, the bench
marking process confirmed it. What is on the front burner
for us is that Enugu is working, developmental governance-wise.
Having said this, quite unlike many, we have refused to say
that our experience is political. It is certainly not political.
It was a welcome experience. We said from the beginning when
EFCC came that we do welcome them. It is not pleasant but
it is a welcome experience, welcome experience in the sense
that we have learnt from it, we have matured. We have, certainly.
It has also helped us to define some moral dilemma, ethical
dilemma in governance, ethical dilemma in terms of, for example,
using leverage or contacts to help relatives. As you know,
this is a grey line and an area that I hope to do a lecture
on someday, so that we can really define the matters of ethics
and matters of clear-cut corruption. We refuse certainly to
say it is political, it is rewarding, not pleasant; it is
certainly rewarding. The opposition must have their say. That
is the essence of democracy. They must have their say. In
Igbo, we say, I ga eti nwatakiri ihe si ya ebala akwa, which
means, you don’t just spank a child and expect that
child not to cry! I’m sure you know that, compared to
many states, Enugu is politically locked up. There is no competition
here.
We are in total control of Enugu . We are in total control
of the political process in Enugu, from the wards, all the
way up, which means that our group will dominate at all levels,
including at the level of presidency – presidential
support, who we are going to support for the presidency, governor,
Senate, House of Representatives, chairmen, councilors. It
is one group in Enugu State, and that group is also working
in tandem with the political situation at the federal. When
you have such total control, the opposition has to do something.
Man has to shake body somehow! We don’t subscribe to
this name calling of politics. EFCC, when they came, they
were welcomed, they are still welcome, it has been a rewarding
experience, though not pleasant, and we believe that as far
as anti-corruption exercise is going, the EFCC has worked,
the president has worked and more importantly, Enugu is working!
Talking about ethical dilemma, the report says the
company, which supplies vehicles to your state, is owned by
one of your relatives. Can you confirm this?
Yes, I can confirm it. That was why I said it is an ethical
dilemma. One of the companies that supplied vehicles to Enugu
State, one of my relatives has majority share holding there.
Were the vehicles supplied at market prices? Yes, they were.
Were the vehicles supplied in good condition? Yes, they were.
Was there a bidding process, transparent with integrity? Yes,
there was. Is it indeed possible that if my relatives were
not to have share holding in these companies, they could not
have the access, even bid or supply? It is possible. That
is why I say it is an ethnical dilemma. Will I do it again?
No, I will not, because it is not worth the wahala. That was
why I said it is an ethical dilemma and an area that maybe
through lectures, maybe through orientation courses, Nigeria
has to address. Also, the issue of contacts, the issue of
networking, the issue of phone calls. For example, is it possible
that if my relatives did not have share holding in this company,
that they could not have supplied the vehicles? It is possible;
it is yes or no, it is an ethical dilemma, it is a moral dilemma.
Have we learnt from it? Yes, we learnt from it.
It is not worth the effort, but I can tell you that the company
was not the only dealer that supplied vehicles to government,
though it was through a transparent bidding process and the
vehicles supplied were supplied at market prices. Were there
advantages to the government? Yes, there were advantages to
government because when you do business with a group, you
know things can be supplied on credit while payments are made
later. Would the others have the confidence to do that? They
may not. It is an ethical dilemma. Has it profited me in any
way? No, it has not. It is not worth the effort. A government
that spent 14 billion Naira building a university, about N5-6
billion building a Teaching Hospital, maybe N1 billion or
thereabout building a judiciary headquarters and many billions
building roads, would that government official or governor,
if they were corrupt in the first instance, do that? You can’t
be talking about a hundred thousand naira, 50 thousand naira
from local governments when you are paying N14 billion and
spending all those money.
I said that the EFCC report is an exoneration. It shows clearly
that these contracting companies do not belong to government
officials. You can see that they were commended, exonerated
in the sense that the EFCC report had commendation for the
contractors. We had statements in the report saying that the
contract prices were under-priced, we had statement saying
that the roads were done very well and the quality of the
job, the building fine and commendable. So, if you look at
the EFCC report, if you really look at it, not the first reading,
not even the second reading, the third reading, forgetting
the theatre and drama which is of course, inherent in African
culture… Once something happens, once his name is mentioned
in allegations, then he must be guilty; whatever we read in
the newspaper is true. They feel that theatre and drama. So
forget both the theatre and drama and go read the EFCC report,
it is an exoneration of the government of Enugu State .
The Senate set up a committee on what it said was the collapse
of the local government in Enugu State.
What is your reaction to this?
No, it is straightforward, we are in a democracy. Democracy
is a wonderful thing. The senators will be here in the next
few minutes, they will be here 12pm or thereabout. We are
going to welcome them, we are going to give them a red carpet
reception. I’m going to dialogue with them; they are
going to meet the House of Assembly and organize a public
hearing. We are not looking at a senator, we are looking at
distinguished senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
, we are looking at strong opinion moulders, representing
various opinions in Nigeria . We look at the Senate as a microcosm
of the Nigerian nation and when they come calling in Enugu
State, we are not going to resort strictly to legality, even
though we know that the constitution, Section 7 states clearly
that local government business is the state government’s
business, even though we know that two or three judgments
of the Supreme Court have confirmed that local governments
are the business of state governments. When great leaders
of society come to Enugu , it is my responsibility as a host
to open the book as it were rather than to resort to legality.
2007 is here and it is clear that you cannot go for
a third term. Do you have a successor in mind?
I have many successors. We have a mansion, our house is a
house of many children; big mansion and there are many children
that can fit into these many rooms in that big mansion. So,
we have a myriad of successors. What is important to us is
that our philosophy of governance continues and whoever goes
there will understand the history, the essence of history
that if you know where you are coming from, you know where
you are and where you are going. I believe that the pertinent
issue for us in Enugu State is that God has given us the opportunity
at this stage to try to replicate, to try to continue the
dream and vision of our great forefathers, the Eyo Itas, the
Nnamdi Azikiwes, the Akanu Ibiams, the Ojukwus, the Michael
Okparas, the Ukpabis, the Imokes, MT Mbus. God has given us
the opportunity to continue with their vision. Where Azikiwe
built a university, today we, his children, can say that we
have also built a university; where Okpara built the Government
House, built legislative building, we can say that we, his
children, have been able to complete the third arm by doing
the judiciary headquarters; where he built pedestrian subway,
we, his children, have also built a vehicular subway; they
built capacity, we have also built capacity.
What is important to us is not 2007, what is important to
us is that we have achieved some level of permanence in the
firmament of the social history of our people, so that 50
years from now, when the story is told, we are going to be
counted; when they are going to look at footprints, they will
see our footprints, and more importantly, they would say that
we passed through.
Some of your colleagues have signified intentions to run for
the presidency, why have you not?
Well, the presidency of this country is not subject to individual
interest but rather, collective interest, and we subscribe
to that collective interest.
Do you want to contest the presidency, vice presidency?
(Cuts in). No, contention does not arise. We are not going
on a presidential hunting but I will say that there is a collectivism
in the presidential pursuit in Nigeria and we subscribe to
that collectivism.
What would you like to be remembered for?
Simple: I will like to be remembered as an apostle of what
the President espoused a few weeks ago, when he talked about
the can-do spirit of man. Having spent quite some time in
the United States, I can relate with that, the spirit of human
achievement, the spirit of man’s pursuit of excellence,
the spirit of man daring to achieve, going beyond the norm,
man going beyond the norm because what differentiates man
from animals is that, where animals vegetate; if they see
food, they eat and if they see water, they drink, man provides
food, man provides water, man changes his environment. I can
say, with all sense of humility and respect and with gratitude
and glory to God, we have changed Enugu State positively,
permanently. Enugu will never be the same again.
What kind of president do you envisage for the country
after 2007?
2007, we will expect the president in the mould of President
Obasanjo, in the areas of infrastructure development, in the
areas of reform, in the area of security, in the areas of
economic diplomacy. We expect an engineering or building process
that will continue. Where President Obasanjo did the foundation,
we expect a president to continue the building; where President
Obasanjo put the window panel, we expect a president that
will put the glass; where President Obasanjo did the roof,
we expect a President that will do the ceiling; we also expect
the continuity of the reform process, reform process in the
area of developmental governance, reform process in terms
of privatization, reform process in the areas of information
technology; we expect further extension of the telecom industry,
and further reform and liberalization of the energy industry;
we expect a continuation and even expansion of an agrarian
revolution; we expect attention to housing, both rural and
urban; we expect implementation of transportation matter plan.
As you know, a few weeks ago, the president provided the nation
a transportation master plan that addresses the rail-road
system, that addressed the water ways, that addressed air
transportation as an intra-complimentary-sector; we expect
the master plan to continue in the master plan to continue
in the sense of data collection, census of movement, who goes
where; we expect the component of economy to come into it;
we expect continuation in the areas of attention to air safety;
we expect attention in terms of intra-boarder trade; we expect
continuation of economic diplomacy; we expect continuation
in being a strong voice in Africa, not just in Africa but
a strong voice representing Africa in the United Nations,
the financial Institutions, the European; we expect a strong
voice for poverty, a strong voice for HIV, a strong voice
on small arms proliferation; we expect a strong voice that
will maintain the sanctity of democracy in the whole of the
nation; we expect a strong voice that will defend Nigeria
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