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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