SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, (THEWILL) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday declared that the ongoing revelation highlighting the padding of the 2016 budget in the National Assembly goes to confirm his earlier position that lawmakers in the country are “armed robbers and rogues.”
Obasanjo, who spoke with State House correspondents shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, pointed out 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 Obasanjo had, at a Lagos event in 2012 attended by two former heads of state, Yakubu Gowon and Ernest Shonekan, described the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly as institutions filled with “rogues and armed robbers”
Speaking on Monday, he told the reporters that he was confident 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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