FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday faulted the comments by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who attributed the crisis in the power sector to the abandonment by his successors.
Owie, who described the comments as misleading and untrue, alleged that it was the former President who created the problems in the power sector which President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration was tackling.
Owie said: “It is shocking that Obasanjo will not stop playing to the gallery after ruining Nigeria in his years of administration.
How can Obasanjo say that his successors abandoned power sector, when he actually laid the foundation for the crisis in that sector today? What blackmail, what hypocrisy?
“Has the former President forgotten that he wasted 16.5 billion dollars on power during his tenure and that 16.5 billion dollars was never accounted for? Even the Ndudi Elumelu committee that investigated the dirty deals in the power sector was pursued by the agents of Obasanjo in government.
“The former President has no credibility to question the credible leadership of President Jonathan.
“Jonathan has done better in just four years than Obasanjo’s wasted 11 years in power.
“His first coming as military Head of State was to destroy the public service and in his second coming, the eight years were used in destroying the independence of the National Assembly and attempts to invade the judiciary.”
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