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Unruffled, Obasanjo insists N’Assembly members are bunch of unarmed robbers who are sleeping

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Unruffled, Obasanjo insists N’Assembly members are bunch of unarmed robbers who are sleeping

Despite the insistence of National Assembly members that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is the godfather of corruption, the unruffled erstwhile leader has maintained that the lawmakers are nothing but a bunch of unarmed robbers.

He said he was certain the lawmakers are going to abuse him again but that he was never going to stop criticising them.
According to him, if they don’t reply him, it’s because they are probably sleeping.

He stated this on Thursday during a public presentation of a book written by Prof. Mark Nwagwu titled, “I am Kagara, I Weave the Sands of Sahara”’ in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Obasanjo at the event also urged the Federal Government to honour the agreement it entered with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), saying that agreement is agreement.

“Government allows itself to be stampeded into signing agreement particularly when one group or the other withdraws its services and goes on strike. After the agreement has been signed, without full consultation within government, implementation becomes an issue.
“But an agreement is an agreement whoever the agent is that signed that agreement on your behalf, you are bound by it. You may now have to renegotiate to have a new agreement but the agreement earlier signed remains an agreement.

“When the university teachers go on strike, there is an agreement; and when doctors go on strike, there will be a special agreement. And when the universities teachers see that the agreement reached with the doctors is different from theirs, they go on strike and this is bad for our economy.

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“The way we are going about spending all our revenue to pay overheads, we will not develop. And we will have ourselves to blame. Ninety per cent of revenue is used to pay overheads, allowances, salaries and not much is left for capital development. In a situation like that, we have to rethink.

“It is even worse for the National Assembly. They will abuse me again but I will never stop talking about them. They are a bunch of unarmed robbers.
“They are one of the highest paid in the world where we have 75 per cent of our people living in abject poverty. They will abuse me tomorrow and if they don’t, maybe they are sleeping. The behaviour and character of the National Assembly should be condemned and roundly condemned,” he said.

Obasanjo’s latest attack is coming while the lawmakers are still nursing an earlier one where he said constituency projects by the National Assembly is corruption.

In their reply to the constituency attack, the lawmakers had insisted that Obasanjo remains the godfather of corruption in Nigeria.

 

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  1. JOHNSON PETER

    August 18, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    Obj !Obj!! Obj!!! The controversial man I have ever seen in my life. Just keep stoning your colleagues in crime while Biafra country moves on

    • Anita Kingsley

      August 18, 2017 at 2:29 pm

      Obasanjo said the truth and he has always been right about the National Assembly, but their corruption is a blessing for Biafra, it’s helping us break out of Nigeria. In a matter of months, we’ll own Biafra land and Nigeria will be a thing of the past

      • yanju omotodun

        August 18, 2017 at 4:09 pm

        Lol. Months indeed

  2. Animashaun Ayodeji

    August 18, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    Obasanjo that is now strongly criticising the National Assembly was the person who empowered them in the first place, if his administration didn’t spoil the house with a lot of money, others won’t follow the trend

  3. Abeni Adebisi

    August 18, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    Obasanjo is still very angry he didn’t succeed in his third term bid, because the then National Assembly didn’t support him. Now he’s doing everything to ridicule them. He’s just a bitter man

    • yanju omotodun

      August 18, 2017 at 4:09 pm

      That is an old scores

  4. seyi jelili

    August 18, 2017 at 4:57 pm

    Biko, ejo, please Asuu resumes back for God’s sake. Enough is enough of wasting students’ precious time

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