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Buhari questions Obasanjo over wasted $16 billion power project

22nd May 2018
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Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari, who last month gave reasons why he had avoided responding to former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s open letter to him, which listed his alleged failures and advised him not to seek re-election, has taken the former president to task over a $16 billion power project during his administration.

The President threw the challenge on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja while receiving the Buhari Support Organization led by the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hammed Ali.

Although Buhari did not mention Obasanjo by name, he queried why there was no stable power in the country after a former president claimed to have spent $16 billion on a power project.

The House of Representatives had in 2008 described $16 billion spent on power by Obasanjo’s government as a massive waste, blaming it on “poor budget planning and a lack of proper oversight by relevant bodies.”

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project had also in 2016 urged the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to immediately appoint an independent counsel to investigate allegations of corruption in the spending of $16 billion on electricity by Obasanjo’s government.

Tags: 2019 general electionsbuhari reelectionbuhari support organizationcorruptiongovernment wastehammed alimuhammadu buhariobasanjo administrationolusegun obasanjopower projectsocio-economic rights and accountability project
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Comments 9

  1. Tony says:
    4 years ago

    Buhari you chasing shadows. You have lost. Nigerians have rejected u

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    • Ayomide says:
      4 years ago

      In what way is he chasing shadows? It’s amazing how Nigerians can easily blame him for what is happening now but kept mute all this years. If there is anyone we need to channel our grievances to, It’s those who ruled us over the years – the likes of obasanjo etc. Then we can say Nigerians are ready if not we are the ones chasing shadows by going after Buhari and trying to bring the same people that almost destroyed Nigeria back to the same position they left us. Then something is wrong with us.

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  2. Uncle Wana says:
    4 years ago

    Ayomide don’t dat animal bearing Tony as a name..bcos no normal human being will reason the way he did…people of same mind and reasoning with Tony are cause of our national failure and not Buhari.

    Reply
  3. Emmanuel Dike says:
    4 years ago

    It is only a fool who responds to wise counsel and advice. When millions of Nigeria are asking Buhari not to contest in 2019, people like Ayomide sees nothing wrong with his non-performance and maladministration. The fact is that well-meaning Nigerians have REJECTED BUHARI!

    Reply
  4. Eze Austin Stephen says:
    4 years ago

    How old is Ayomide when Buhari came in as a military President? Many Nigerians back then, never voted for Buhari second missionary journey, if you think you know much about Buhari, ask questions with reference to 1983, if you get a sincere answers, you’ll think more of sending him on Exile on time before 2019.

    Reply
  5. Basil says:
    4 years ago

    Thanks Ayomide, I appreciate your persistent truthfulness in earnest. Imagine what the government under Buhari is doing in terms of infrastructure alone. Look at 2nd Niger Bridge etc. I believe most of the critics are broke becouse everywhere is block as their’s no money to steal .

    Reply
  6. Kabiyeze says:
    4 years ago

    These two men are terrible people. Obj knows Buhari’s IQ level very well Buhari having ruled before and a junior army officer under, yet OBJ conspired to remove Jonathan and impose this well known ‘incompetent, ethnic and religious jingoist’. We are not sure if OBJ is not a British spy who works to enthrone incompetent Fulani’s for Britain. He has started shopping for another Fulani man to replace Buhari. Buhari on the other hand knows about the $16b power scandal but decided to sweep it under the carpet provided that OBJ keeps quiet. Otherwise why was Buhari concentrating on squeezing out mere N200m from Olusa Metu even if it means killing him in the process when he has $16b to recover from OBJ just because Olisa criticised him. Buhari’s method of intimidating his critics with EFCC to whip them into APC or silence may not perfectly work for him this time ás it worked with Orji Uzor Kalu and others as one believes that OBJ is equally capable of blackmailing him.

    Reply
  7. Kabiyeze says:
    4 years ago

    These two men are terrible people. Obj knows Buhari’s IQ level very well Buhari having ruled before and a junior army officer under, yet OBJ conspired to remove Jonathan and impose this well known ‘incompetent, ethnic and religious jingoist’. We are not sure if OBJ is not a British spy who works to enthrone incompetent Fulani’s for Britain. He has started shopping for another Fulani man to replace Buhari. Buhari on the other hand knows about the $16b power scandal but decided to sweep it under the carpet provided that OBJ keeps quiet. Otherwise why was Buhari concentrating on squeezing out mere N200m from Olisa Metu and the likes even if it means killing him in the process when he has $16b to recover from OBJ just because Olisa criticised him. Buhari’s method of intimidating his critics with EFCC to whip them into APC or silence may not perfectly work for him this time ás it worked with Orji Uzor Kalu and others as one believes that OBJ is equally capable of blackmailing him.

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  8. Ezekiel Okeke says:
    4 years ago

    There’s no question about the fact that Obasanjo is the living father of corruption, but fulani criminals under Ya’ Adua sabotaged the power project Obasanjo initiated, Obasanjo on his part fought against Tinubu power project for Lagos. The whole mess in this natives territory under the dead fraudulent political name Nigeria controlled by fulani fraudulent criminal sultanate political government with its emirates, has come to an end in this climax of the ongoing Revolution War of the natives under the natives Disintegrated Republics which secures the natives existence and future in 21st century world. God given Victory is the natives’. Only the Sword decides. God Is With Us!!!!

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