Former Governor Godwin Obaseki has reacted to the move
by the government of Governor Monday Okpebholo to probe the previous
administration.
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
incompetence and unpreparedness for office, having come into power through a
stolen mandate.
“We want to advise Okpebholo to focus on governance
and improving the lives of Edo people rather than waste state resources masking
his incompetence in meaningless probes.
“Edo people are watching and his short-span government
which lasts until the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) reclaims its mandate duly
given to it by Edo voters will be judged not by the noise it makes but by the
impact it delivers.”
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