Aso Villa clinic probe: Jonathan had nothing to do with 2015 budget implementation – Aide
Eze, in a statement issued Friday, however dismissed the report as a misrepresentation of facts, stressing that ex-President Jonathan had nothing to do with the implementation of the 2015 budget.
His statement reads: “The House of representatives resolved Thursday 12
October, 2015, to probe 2015-2017 allocations to Aso Rock Clinic and some media
reports are needlessly dragging the name of former President Goodluck Jonathan
into it.
“We had thought that the media should be the first
to remind Nigerians that since Dr. Jonathan left office on May 29, 2015, he had
absolutely nothing to do with the implementation of the budget for that year.
“For emphasis, the 2015 Appropriation Bill which was passed by the parliament
in April was signed into law in May, 2015.
And since the procurement process,
based on the new procurement law, takes at least three months to complete,
there was no way Jonathan would have had anything to do with the budget
implementation for 2015, before vacating Aso Rock Villa on May 29, 2015. “Going
by the way some people make insinuations on issues that border on the
development of our country, it would appear as if Ex-President Jonathan had
been in office since independence in 1960, and probably still be in charge
today. “We expect media houses to always do proper investigations to avoid the
convenient choice of always using Jonathan as the scapegoat for the misdeeds of
others.”
Vanguard
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