Elder statesmen blast GEJ, call for probe

Two elder statesmen, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma, have stated that Nigeria has been poorly managed under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan, and that his administration should be probed.

Danjuma who spoke in Takum, Taraba State, while commissioning two newly built bridges along the Takum-Katsina Ala road called for the probe of the outgoing administration, adding, that “What we are hearing is that the treasury of the country is empty at the federal level. I’m calling on the new administration to investigate what happened to our monies as soon as Buhari takes over power on May 29.

“With that, some of the stolen funds would be recovered.”

The report quoted the former minister as describing the Jonathan administration as a “very corrupt” one bequeathing a more than $60 billion debt burden to its successor.

Obasanjo on his part, looked back at the last eight years and returned with a verdict, that the country had been poorly managed under President Jonathan.

Obasanjo said this when the Iyalode of Yoruba land, Chief Alaba Lawson, led a delegation of South-West women leaders on a visit to his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta.

The 78-year-old leader said, “The country had been poorly managed in the last eight years and it would take some time for Buhari’s government to correct the anomalies. But I want to tell him not to be frightened.”

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