Reno Omokri an Aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has dared Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to publish proofs to back the allegation that the former President’s administration shared about 150 billion Naira before the 2015 elections.
Professor Osinbajo made the allegations while speaking on issues of corruption and past failures of governments at the 7th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum in Abuja.
“Oil Prices were at an average of 110 dollars a barrel and only 99 billion Naira was spent on power, works and housing and in one day, 100 billion Naira was issued, and people essentially shared it and when we talk about our economy we talk about it as if it’s a normal thing, its abnormal,” the VP stated.
Omokri who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Tuesday, however, stressed that the comments were “completely false” as no such money was shared.
“The allegations that the Vice President has made are “completely false”. Saying that 143 billion was spent on capital expenditure in three years under Jonathan is a big lie,” he stressed.
Speaking further, he poked holes in the anti-corruption fight of the Buhari administration, saying that despite its claims of winning the war, corruption had manifested itself more in the current administration than any other.
“Every human institution has corruption but the Muhammadu Buhari administration has said that they are fighting corruption, if that is true, how come Nigeria made their best improvement in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index in 2014 under President Good Luck Jonathan when we moved eight places forward from 142 to 136 and then, how come Nigeria has made her worst ever performance in the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index under President Muhammadu Buhari when this year we have moved 12 places backwards from 136 to148,” he questioned.
