Ayo Olukotun
It is not entirely clear why Vice President Yemi Osinbajo chose the occasion of Monday’s 7th Quarterly Business Forum to, as it were, open fire on the Jonathan administration, but his widely quoted remarks have generated a sizeable backlash.
Osinbajo reportedly alleged on Monday that on the eve of the 2015 elections, officials of the Peoples Democratic Party, “in one single transaction”, withdrew and frittered away N100bn and $295m. He went on to say as a clincher, that close to $3bn were stolen by officials promoting Strategic Alliance Contracts, involving the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Niger Delta Development Commission. Warming up to the emerging political boxing ring, a spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, rebutted the allegations, and, sadly in my view, went on to call Osinbajo a serial liar whose main…
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