Account for $16bn power fund, APC tells Obasanjo

The All Progressives Congress has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to account for the N16bn power spending during his reign.

The party also asked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to account for the sale of national assets during the privatisation programme of their administration.

• PDP backs Obasanjo, slams Presidency
• You are Nigeria’s Divider-in-Chief, Presidency replies Obasanjo

APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary,  Yekini Nabena, in a statement, said political actors who allegedly midwifed national rot can’t chart the way forward for the country.

“It is baffling that the same political actors that midwifed and institutionalised the national rot, corruption, impunity and eroding of our value systems are the same characters posing as voices on the way forward in our national life. How ironic!

“Former President Olusegun Obasanjo could start with telling us where the electricity is despite $16bn he spent on the power sector.

“Obasanjo’s deputy, Atiku Abubakar should account for the privatisation exercise under his watch which saw national assets sold off to friends and cronies with no benefit to the country,” the APC said.