{"id":42937,"date":"2015-10-15T23:18:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=42937"},"modified":"2015-10-15T23:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:59:30","slug":"how-i-spent-kogis-n11billion-abubakar-audu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/how-i-spent-kogis-n11billion-abubakar-audu\/","title":{"rendered":"How I spent Kogi’s N11Billion-Abubakar Audu"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a tweetChat with his followers today, APC Candidate for the November 21\u00a0Kogi state governorship election, Prince Abubakar Audu cleared the air on\u00a0the N11 billion allegedly looted by him, amongst other questions tweeted\u00a0at him by Nigerians using the hashtag #AskAudu. His answer:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in office between 1999 \u2013 2003, we received average monthly\u00a0allocation of N350 million – about N16.8 billion for the entire 4 years of\u00a0my tenure. With these, we paid all salaries, we built Kogi State\u00a0University, Obajana Cement Factory (now owned and run by Dangote Cement),\u00a0Confluence Beach Hotel, Stella Obasanjo Library, Paparanda Square, Govt.\u00a0house (Lugard) House, Government Office, secretariat, the banquet hall,\u00a0started the confluence stadium and built the Lokoja township stadium,\u00a0others are the Fed. Medical Centre + equipped same with 25 state-of-art\u00a0ambulances, NTA Kogi, Radio Kogi, Kogi Graphics Newspaper, 75 rural\u00a0electrification projects, the presidential lodge, Governor’s lodge, Abuja,\u00a0inter-state roads; We also built the specialist eye centre, commissioner’s\u00a0quarters, 200 housing units, just to mention a few. In 2002, the Fed.\u00a0Govt. instituted a panel to evaluate and reward performance. Out of 12\u00a0awards for the 36 state governors, I won 7 awards. Now, how could all\u00a0these have been achieved?<\/p>\n

When the then ruling People\u2019s Democratic Party saw me as a threat, they\u00a0started instigating Kogites against me, and when the people couldn\u2019t buy\u00a0into that, having known the truth, they orchestrated my arrest, which led\u00a0to my being dragged before the ICPC, CCB, CCT and EFCC.<\/p>\n

When all that failed, the then PDP led Kogi state government took over and\u00a0issued a white paper, banning me from politics for 10years. I proceeded to\u00a0court, and the court ruled that the Kogi government has no such right to\u00a0ban me from politics.<\/p>\n

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has also taken me to 7\u00a0courts in total (4 in Kogi and 3 in Abuja). In each of these cases,\u00a0they\u2019ll always pull out before judgment is passed and go back to frame up\u00a0new figures; I was 1st accused of stealing N1.5b, then N4b, then N8b and\u00a0finally N11 billion. It\u2019s also on record that I was the most pursued\u00a0politician by the EFCC, as the PDP wanted my head at all cost \u2013 always\u00a0during elections.<\/p>\n

And so I ask all Kogites and Nigerians, how could my administration have\u00a0achieved all we did with less than N6 billion, if N11 billion was missing?\u00a0Again only the work I did in Kogi State stands there today. The PDP govt.\u00a0since I left office, has received about N550 billion, without accounting\u00a0for it.<\/p>\n

So the questions should be where have these funds gone? Why are Kogites\u00a0still languishing in abject poverty? Why is Lokoja the dirtiest state\u00a0capital in Nigeria? Why has EFCC been mute? Clearly the PDP led EFCC had a\u00a0different agenda. I leave these thoughts to my fellow Kogites to mull over\u00a0and ponder. The truth is out there for those who care to know but my\u00a0happiness is that all well-meaning Kogites know the truth and have pledged\u00a0to support me and the APC to victory ahead of the November 21 Governorship\u00a0election, as I promise to do even more, when we eventually take up power.<\/p>\n

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