Oshiomhole Replies Obasanjo’s Allegations At Governors: SEE The 6 Things He Said

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Oshiomhole, reacting to a statement by the former president that state governors live like emperors and hinder the local governments from performing their statutory functions, said the allegations do not apply to him (Oshiomhole) or his administration. INFORMATION NIGERIA has in this piece put together 6 things he said back to obasanjo.

1. Governor Adams Oshiomhole responded that that no one is more deserving of the tag of emperor which former President Olusegun Obasanjo sought to hang on state governors recently than Obasanjo himself.

2. Governor Oshiomhole said perhaps Obasanjo was referring to governors that ruled between 1999 and 2007 when he was in power.

3. The outspoken governor also said It would be wrong for anybody to put him in the rank of those who are called emperors.

4. Oshiomhole exempted his state and himself further saying his state does not own a private jet although other states have and don’t have the means to sustain it.

5. He asked Obasanjo to go round and ask local government chairmen in his state, that he does not touch local government money.

6. Further more, the Edo governor said rather when there was interregnum, he saved money for the local governments. Some got as much as N800m. They inherited it because he (Oshiomhole) saved the money for elected chairmen