Former Governor Godwin Obaseki has reacted to the move by the government of Governor Monday Okpebholo to probe the previous administration...CLICK TO READ THE FULL NEWS HERE▶▶
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Okpebholo on Sunday approved the formation of a 14-member State Assets Verification Committee to investigate his predecessor, Obaseki’s administration.
Members of the committee are scheduled to be sworn in on Tuesday.
Reacting, Crusoe Osagie, media aide to Obaseki, has described the probe of his principal’s administration as a “smokescreen” to cover the incompetence of the Okpebholo administration.
According to Osagie, the probe is an attempt to “distract from glaring incompetence and lack of direction” on the part of the current administration. He emphasized that Obaseki’s administration was “one of the most transparent, accountable, and prudent governments in the history of Nigeria.”
“Our attention has been drawn to a laughable and utterly ridiculous statement by the Monday Okpebholo’s administration setting up a 14-member state assets verification committee to probe the administration of his predecessor, His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki,” the statement reads.
“This is another in the list of the barrage of meaningless probes which the governor and his directionless government is embarking on since they got into Dennis Osadebey avenue through the back door.
“From probing civil servants’ employment to probing ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs), and probing vehicles and other assets of government, among others, the governor-select has continued to show that he is bereft of ideas and lacks a clear vision for the development of the state
“He has therefore resorted to these charades of empty probes to buy time and distract from his incompetence and unpreparedness for office.
“He should stop his futile and failed attempt to fool the people of Edo State who have already seen him for who he truly is: a politician out of his depth who has become a tool in the hands of his many godfathers who are thirsty for vendetta, having for long been denied access to the people’s patrimony by the immediate past government of His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.
“It is on record that the Obaseki administration achieved an unprecedented level of transparency in governance, laying a solid foundation for fiscal discipline, which was why it was able to accomplish the numerous milestones recorded across various sectors of the state.
“So, we know what their plans are with the diversionary probes. It is just a smokescreen to mask the governor-select’s in..CLICK TO READ THE FULL NEWS HERE▶▶
