By Sylvester Ugwuanyi on July 25, 2016
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that the emerging
revelation on the padding of the 2016 budget in the National Assembly
goes to confirm his earlier position that lawmakers are “armed robbers
and rogues.”
Obasanjo, who spoke with State House correspondents shortly after
meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja, on Monday, declared that the best way out of the current mess was
to ensure that only men of integrity are elected into the National
Assembly.
It would be recalled that at a 2012 event in Lagos attended by two
former Nigerian leaders, Yakubu Gowon and Ernest Shonekan, Obasanjo had
described the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly as
institutions filled with “rogues and armed robbers.”
The ex-president went on to tell the reporters who met with him at
the Villa today that he was sure that the fresh revelation would make
those who did not believe him when he made his first statement to do so
now, stressing that there is no need to investigate the allegations and
counter-allegations of the 2016 budget padding in the National Assembly.
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