Former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka has refuted claims by Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi concerning the money left behind by ex president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
Appearing on Channel’s Television programme , Hard Copy, Amaechi had stated that contrary to the view that the government must leave behind money that should last for six months, what former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration left could not last up to three weeks .
Following up in a swift reaction, Osita Chidoka said that he was a member of the Federal Executive Council that handed over to the current administration and was shocked to hear of the myth of empty treasury from a senior government member. He also said that Amaechi was made a minister six months after the May 29 handover and was not giving out the actual facts.
He stated that on May 29,2015 President Buhari inherited a foreign reserve of $28.6 billion , $5.6 billion Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas Limited dividends. He also cliamed that a 2015 budget of over 5 trillion Naira was handed over to the incoming administration by the outgoing Jonathan government.
He further affirmed that it can be verified by the Ministry of Finance that a total of $2.2 billon was left in the Excess Crude Account on May, 29, 2015.
Reeling out other financial achievements of the outgone Jonathan Administration, he asked the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to rethink his fixation on the past and focus on the clear and present danger of an economy on the path to Argentina, a sovereign debt default.
He also tasked Minister Amaechi and the APC government to stop the perennial blame game and focus on redemning it’s tattered image by signing the Electoral bill passed by a legislature it controls.
