of persecuting him.
Igbinedion, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said that the incumbent governor of Edo State should desist from attempts to persecute him and show accountability to the people.
In the statement he personally signed, and made public in Abuja, Igbinedion said that Oshiomhole needed to channel his energy in explaining to the people of Edo State how he has wasted N1, 000,000,000,000: 00 (One trillion naira) he collected as federal allocations and Internally-Generated Revenue in the last seven years.
The former governor said: “I have made it very clear time without numbers that the files of my tenure are there for everybody who cares to check. I do not intend to dignify Adams Oshiomhole any longer by joining issue with him. He should explain to the people of Edo State how he spent the federal allocations and internally-generated revenues running into trillions of Naira in seven years.
‘’He should tell the people of Edo how much he is paying as land tax for his house at Iyamho worth over N10 billion and other properties he has acquired in the last seven years in Dubai, Cape Town in South Africa, San Francisco in the United States of America, and a High Rise apartment in Atlanta also in America and in London.”
He said that Oshiomhole was trying to divert attention to him following the heat turned on him by the people of Edo State who believed that he had mismanaged their resources in the last seven years,
Igbinedion further said: “Oshiomhole has failed; the people of Edo State now know him better. Oshiomhole is the least qualified person to talk about corruption in the country today, because his actions and programmes in the last seven years in Edo State epitomise corruption.
‘’He has called everybody in Nigeria a thief; he called former President Olusegun Obasanjo a thief, called former President Goodluck Jonathan a thief, called Ngozi Okojo-Iweala and others thieves. Yet, he cannot prove his cases. I don’t think he knows the meaning of a thief.’
Nigerian Tribune
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