Amosun Replies Daniel, Says His Administration Is Not Owing 300bn
Ogun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Yusuff Olaniyonu, on Tuesday said, Amosun administration had incurred debt of less than N40bn as opposed to Daniel’s claim.
Otunba Gbenga Daniel had on Tuesday while speaking to Journalists in his Mede, Lagos residence alleged Amosun government of incurring debt of N300bn in less than four years and that all legacy during his tenure between 2003 and 2011 was being rubbished by the present administration in the state.
Barrister Olaniyonu on the legacy claim said, it was an admission of guilt by the former governor.
“Governor Daniel is right that we are rubbishing his legacies of violence, a legacy of owing teachers 19 months’ salary, a legacy of bad roads. Our debt profile as of March 2014 was N37.9bn so I don’t know where he is getting his figures from. I think he should face his EFCC case and let us work.
“We reconstructed the Sango-Ojodu Road. Was Governor Daniel happy with the way it was? We have rebuilt roads that were abandoned since the era of Olabisi Onabanjo. When we took over, Ogun was in a state of no development and we rubbished that legacy.” He said.
The former Ogun State governor also said at the media chat that Amosun administration had failed woefully and he was working hard to ensure that Amosun did not win a second term in 2015.
Daniel boasted that during his tenure, he built roads and awarded contracts to only indigenes of the state but Amosun had not built a single road but was only expanding the existing ones. He said the Amosun administration had incurred debt to the tune of N300bn in less than four years.
He said due to the incompetence of the All Progressives-led administration, Ogun State had lost a proposed refinery which should have been built by billionaire businessman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote in Ode-Omi, in the Waterside; as well as a deep-seaport which he had laid the groundwork for.
“Every step or project he (Amosun) has done is to erase me or surpass me. How can that be the philosophy of a government? But my people have said they want a better governor and because they are blaming me, I have no choice but to ensure that they have a better governor. If it means joining hands with the Labour Party, the Peoples Democratic Party or President Goodluck Jonathan, it does not matter, we just have to make the change.
“We have spent over N270bn on road expansion, not brand new roads. Since the advent of this administration, I am not aware of a brand new road that they have opened up, they have expanded existing roads.”
