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Money Goodluck Jonathan Left Behind Could Not Sustain Nigeria Three Weeks – Rotimi Amaechi
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says the cash left behind for Nigeria by former President Goodluck Jonathan on the level of his departure on Could 29, 2015 was not sufficient to run the affairs of the nation for 3 weeks.
Rotimi Amaechi, who’s a former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Discussion board, stated this on a Channels Tv’s programme titled, ‘Laborious Copy’, which was monitored by The PUNCH.
Rotimi Amaechi who’s former governor of Rivers State claimed that whereas he headed the governors’ discussion board, he was knowledgeable by Presidency officers that there was just about nothing left within the treasury.
The minister added, “While you discuss bandits and all these people who kill. It’s a query about poverty. And that poverty didn’t begin on this regime. Don’t neglect that oil was bought at $110, $114, $115 per barrel. When this authorities got here into energy, oil fell to $28 per barrel and since then it has not gone above $80 per barrel.
“As former chairman of the governors’ discussion board, I used to be instructed by the safety in a gathering chaired by the previous President together with the previous minister of finance that at each cut-off date, the federal government should depart cash behind in case Nigeria goes to conflict that will final for six months.
“By the point we got here, they didn’t depart cash behind that would final us for 3 weeks. And I used to be talking at the moment because the chairman of the governors’ discussion board.”
