This is indeed a shocking revelation by a former governor of
Anambra State…and all Nigerians still expect this same people to change Nigeria
into an overnight paradise? Sighs…anyway, read the full gist as reported by
Saturday Punch. Read after the page jump:
This is an exclusive interview with Former Anambra state
governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju (1999 to 2003) who revealed a very shocking
incident when he was the governor of Anambra state. Speaking to Saturday
Punch he said:
Well, a godfather has many connotations. You could
have positive godfathers and negative ones. The good ones work towards
making things work and succeed but if you have a godfather that is always
challenging, he wants to make appointments, if you have 10 commissioners, he
would want to have three or four. After you have given him two commissioners,
he will say he wants Special Advisers, Special Assistants and he will even want
to choose their portfolios but I said these things are not done like that and they
said it is done like that, that is controversy.
There is a godfather who had an arrangement with the
military that he would be paid N10m every month, I wasn’t there when the
agreement was made. When I tried to stop it, I was dragged to President Obasanjo’s
office and I told Obasanjo this is the situation I found on ground and Obasanjo
said I had to go back and continue paying it; that it was legal. At what stage
did I renege? They will always try to give a dog a bad name in order to hang
it. Obasanjo gave them contracts worth billions of naira, they were super rich,
there was nothing I could give to them.
You mean Obasanjo asked you to pay this godfather; who is
he?
Yes, Obasanjo asked me to pay. The godfather is one of the
Uba family.
Ngoo this man is the wost thing dat has hapnd to dat state he is a cold bloodd human ben.do u no hw many pepl he kild? Tink bak abt d lawyer he killed with the wife n odas remember hw workers were nt paid 4 years in dat state n the level of infrastructural development was vry low. He signd that agreement with his open eyes that's y obj told him to Bak n pay n he was nt workin . He is lookin 4 peopls sympathy dats y he is sounding like a saint nw dn't mind hm
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