{"id":62333,"date":"2018-05-22T19:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62333"},"modified":"2018-05-22T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T18:55:03","slug":"16billion-power-project-you-are-ignorant-probe-me-obasanjo-tells-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/16billion-power-project-you-are-ignorant-probe-me-obasanjo-tells-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"$16billion Power Project: You Are Ignorant, Probe Me, Obasanjo Tells Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has replied President Mohammadu Buhari<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">saying he is ready for probe over the $16b Power Project.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Obasanjo said it is ignorance for President Buhari to make such wild<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">allegation without proper checks<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He made this known in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It has come to the attention of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that a statement<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, apparently without correct<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">information and based on ignorance, suggested that $16 billion was wasted<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">on power projects by \u201ca former President\u201d.\u00a0 We believe that the President<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">was re-echoing the unsubstantiated allegation against Chief Obasanjo by<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">his own predecessor but one.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">While it is doubtful that a President with proper understanding of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">issue would utter such, it should be pointed out that records from the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">National Assembly had exculpated President Obasanjo of any wrong-doing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">concerning the power sector and has proved the allegations as false.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">For the records, Chief Obasanjo has addressed the issues of the power<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">sector and the allegations against him on many occasions and platforms,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">including in his widely publicised book, My Watch in which he exhaustively<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">stated the facts and reproduced various reports by both the Economic and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which conducted a clinical<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">investigation into the allegations against Chief Obasanjo, and the Ad-Hoc<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Committee on the Review of the Recommendations in the Report of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Committee on Power on the Investigation into how the Huge Sums Of Money<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">was Spent on Power Generation, Transmission And Distribution between June<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">1999 and May 2007 without Commensurate Result.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">We recommend that the President and his co-travellers should read Chapters<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">41, 42, 43 and 47 of My Watch for Chief Obasanjo\u2019s insights and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">perspectives on the power sector and indeed what transpired when the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">allegation of $16 billion on power projects was previously made. If he<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">cannot read the three-volume book, he should detail his aides to do so and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">summarise the chapters in a language that he will easily understand.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In the same statement credited to the President, it was alleged that there<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">was some bragging by Chief Obasanjo over $16 billion spent on power. To<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">inform the uninformed, the so-called $16 billion power expenditure was an<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">allegation against Chief Obasanjo\u2019s administration and not his claim. The<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">President also queried where the power generated is. The answer is simple:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The power is in the seven National Integrated Power Projects and eighteen<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">gas turbines that Chief Obasanjo\u2019s successor who originally made the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">allegation of $16 billion did not clear from the ports for over a year and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the civil works done on the sites.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Chief Obasanjo challenges, and in fact encourages, anybody to set up<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">another enquiry if in doubt and unsatisfied with the EFCC report and that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of the Hon. 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