Former Governor of Anambra State,
Mr. Peter Obi has challenged his successor, Chief Willie Obiano to tell
Anambrarians how he spent N75bn he left behind in office.
Obi said the governor should tell
the people of Anambra State what he had done for them in almost four years,
rather than using the non-existent demand for N7 billion as an excuse to hide
his gross incompetence.
Valentine Obienyem, the Special
Adviser to the former governor said that now was campaign time, but rather than
tell the people of the state what he had done for them, Obiano was busy
sponsoring people on different media to say he demanded N7 billion from him,
which was entirely false.
He said, “now that he has
accepted that he did not give the N7 billion to anybody, he should go ahead and
tell Anambra people what he used their money to do, bearing in mind that major
projects in the state such as roads, Awka and Nnewi malls as well as Onitsha
and Agulu Hotels, among others remain abandoned.
“We know the governor has many
questions to answer and cannot run away from them through blackmail. For
instance, on the issue of the N75 billion Obi left for him, he tried to deny it
by saying he met ‘near cash’, we went on and published the banks and account
numbers where the money were and the bank certified statement of accounts, but
they tactically kept quiet.
“To refresh our minds, Obi left
N2,139,951,400 billion in First Bank (Acc no. 2018779464) for Oko erosion;
N4,909,576,925.98 billion in Sure-P Diamond account (0026290200); 1,782,568,032
billion in UBEC 1 Diamond account(0023484282); N2,101,864,766 billion UBEC 2
Diamond Account (0031151473); over N4 billion in many MDG accounts one of which
was the N3,048,355,196 billion in Fidelity Bank (5030047097); over 35 billion
Naira cash (set aside funds added) in all the banks.
“Obi also left $156 million in
Fidelity Bank ($56 million); Diamond Bank ($50 million); and Access Bank ($50
million).
“If left as Anambra’s Future
Growth Funds as conceived by Obi, the money with interest and accruals would
have been about 200 billion Naira, but Gov. Obiano has sold all of them. In
fact, it was one of the disagreements about the sale that led Mr. Oseloka Obaze
to resign. Obiano should be busy telling us the status of these moneys rather
than his current blackmail.
“Now is also the time for Obiano
to justify before Anambra people why he takes 1.2 billion Naira as security
votes, which is biggest in Nigeria relative to income.”
The statement said that what was
curious was that within his first 6 months in office, he vired all the money in
MDG account, with which schools and hospitals get monetary and development
support to his security vote.”
The statement further said that
now was the time for Obiano to clear so many lies his administration has been
dishing out to the people of the state, with the phantom $5 million ugu export
as an example.
“As a seasonal vegetable, at
least ugu would be exported once every year, but now, going to two years, we do
not hear about it again.
“He recently told us that Anambra
got the order to export 10 million tubers of yam, maybe he did not even realize
that over 80% of yam consumed in Anambra State come from Benue and Taraba
States.
“He also said that Anambra is now
producing over 200 metric tons of rice, when even Stines company sources rice
from Ebonyi State,” the statement added.
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