The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said the current administration would continue to talk about the corruption and mismanagement of the nation's resources by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in order to make Nigerians realize the level of damage the party inflicted on them.
The Vice President stated this on Thursday in Lagos while making a presentation at the Eko Hotel and Suites, venue of the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium organized to commemorate the 66th birthday celebration of the All progressives Congress leader national leader.
According to him;
“Upon all I had seen in government in the past three years, the corruption of the previous five years is what destroyed the Nigerian economy. Every time we talk about corruption, our opponents say don’t talk about it. Just do your own. But we must talk about it. The reason why we must talk about it is that we must let our people know that we can’t afford to go this way again.
Never again should we allow a system where people take the resources of this country and steal the resources, use the resources against the people and at the same time they want to continue to rule the people.”
He said the current administration had invested over N560 Billion in last year's budget for the execution of capital project stressing that the PDP government would have diverted such amount into private pockets. He lamented that while the government was spending that huge sum of money on capital project in the Ministry of power, works and Housing, the PDP government spent only N99 billion in the same ministry.
“We as a party, as your government, must show the difference between us and the government and the party that impoverished our nation. Let me give you an example, in 2014 when oil was between $100 and $114 a barrel, the actual releases for capital for three major ministries; power, works and housing, when they were three separate ministries, in total was N99 billion. Transportation got N14 billion and agriculture N15billion.
Now let us compare that with capital releases to the same ministries in 2017 when oil price was between $50 and $60 per barrel; N415 billion for power, works and housing, N80billion for transportation and N65billion for agriculture. Totalling N560 billion in a time when we were earning at least 50 per cent less. This is possible because if you do not steal the resources of the people, you can spend it,” he said.
