EXPOSED: Jonathan Puts N1.8b in Budget for Project Obasanjo Paid & Completed In 2006

President Goodluck Jonathan is asking the National Assembly to appropriate about N1.8bn this year (2014) to help connect his home state of Bayelsa, to the national electricity grid, but this request suggests that some 'Ogas at the Top' only want to pocket the money, secretly.

Exposing the BIG fraud, an officials of the Ministry of Power said they were “stunned and amused at the claim from the presidency which is obviously an afterthought. It is not true that the Bayelsa transmission line needs an upgrade. If it’s an upgrade, why didn’t they say so in the budget? Why was it presented as a totally new project?” the official queried.

These revelations are shocking as the project was fully paid for by Obasanjo. Continue...
PREMIUM TIMES investigations into the proposed project reveal that President Jonathan is asking money for projects that have been completed seven years ago (during the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo), and that were all fully paid for in 2006 when he (Jonathan) was the governor of Bayelsa State.

In the 2014 Federal budget recently presented by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, toNational Assembly for consideration and approval, the government lists as priority, the need to connect the state to the national electricity transmission network, but this shocking blunder is drawing attention to the absence of project monitoring and evaluation principles in policy making under the current administration, and the shabbiness that attends to budget preparation.

When contacted, the Special Adviser to the President on Power, Beks Dagogo-Jack, could not explain how the provision found its way into the budget, but claimed the issue might involve some complicated technical explanations only the bureaucrats at the Federal Ministry of Power could make.

PREMIUM TIMES investigations reveal that such provisions, that many federal crime investigators are familiar with, are some of the several fraudulent financial requests smuggled into budgets to steal public funds.

The Special Adviser to Bayelsa State governor on Power, Olice Kemenanabo, on Tuesday, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that Bayelsa State was indeed linked to the national grid more than eight years ago.

The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Bright Okogwu, demanded a text message enquiry when contacted Thursday. He did not respond to the enquiry as at the time of publishing this report on Saturday.

However, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, insisted Friday night the N1.8billion request is not fraudulent.

“It is true contract connecting Yenagoa to the national grid was awarded in 2006,” Mr. Okupe said in response to a PREMIUM TIMES enquiry. “It is a 2x40MVA station connecting only Yenagoa. That voltage is far too small to cater for the needs of the state.

APC Set To Visit Obasanjo

The men in APC are bent on penetrating all facets of Nigeria before 2015. The leadership of the party is to meet with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and tell him the reason behind the formation of the mega party.

"We have been visiting others like the G-7 governors; we have all visited former heads of state, and we intend to visit former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, any time he is available to ask for understanding and brief him on why we formed the APC."

This is according to former Head of State and a leader of the party, Muhammadu Buhari. He stated this in an interview with journalists at the residence of a former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in Abuja.

He said the leadership of the party had been visiting other notable Nigerians and that the time had come for it to also pay a visit to ex-President Obasanjo.

Jonathan Is a Coward, He is Behind That Letter –– Iyabo Obasanjo Blasts

Obasanjo exposed the bitter truth and the man helped made president decided to blackmail him?

"If President Jonathan want to reply the letter my father wrote him, he should be man enough to reply direct. Why are they trying to make me a scape goat? I know my father very well and I don't question his judgement, I believe my father wrote his letter in the best interest of the nation. If Mr President disagree with some of the allegations in the letter, let him be man enough to talk directly to my father, he should stop involving me in an issue I know nothing about. 

"How can you write a letter to insult my father and claim I, the daughter is the source. If that is how Ijaw people insult their father, I am a Yoruba Woman; we respect our parent in all circumstances.

Reacting to the fake letter against her father, Iyabo Obasanjo further stated that...

"I have never seen or heard this sort of fabrication in my entire life! I, Iyabo Obasanjo, never contemplate writing a letter to my loving father. I speak with him almost on daily bases. Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo is the best father in the world. He gave birth to me, he raised me up and gave me the best of education. I wouldn't have achieved whatever I did without my father. In fact, WHO AM I WITHOUT MY FATHER? As a father he never disappoints his children in any way, he is a father anybody wish to have.

"I, Iyabo Obasanjo, did not write any letter. Nigerians should please take note. The purported letter is a malicious lies intended to rubbish the good name of my family, when I get to the source of the letter, I will waste no time to take the necessary legal actions. 

"I love my father and I never disrespect him."