A Minister Under GEJ’s Tenure Stole as Much as $6bn – Oshimhole

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, revealed that during the Peoples Democratic Party government of former President Goodluck Jonathan, senior officials of the US State Department said one minister under PDP cornered as much as $6bn…

Oshiomhole, who was on the entourage during President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the United States, while speaking with State House correspondents shortly after meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said:

“The PDP destroyed the country. I mean from the lips of American officials; senior officials of the State Department said one minister under PDP cornered as much as $6bn.

“The man said even by Washington’s standard, that is earth-shattering.

“So, the PDP is a party that presided over the liquidation of our nation, destroyed all our institutions, converted the Armed Forces commanders to use them as if they were political thugs, converted the Nigerian Television Authority to a party megaphone, destroyed the Department of State Services, went after opposition as if we were rabbits to be pursued into our holes, compromised even student unions and destroyed everything that you can think of, and elevated religion to a state affair.

“Under the party, Israel became a place you visit every week; they placed pastors against mallams, placed the North against the South, the East against the West, just to retain power; elevate Obas and Obis with dollars.

“You guys (journalists) were reporting dollars that were changing hands; when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was spending much more money than is available to the Federation Account.

“We are a very patient people. If we were not a patient people, anybody wearing the tag of PDP ought to feel very unsafe because you are all victims — all of us here.”