‘Jonathan gave PDP governors N2bn each’ – Oshiomhole

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has accused the former President Goodluck Jonathan of playing favorite with governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party during his administration.

Oshiomhole revealed this on Thursday, April 28 while speaking to newsmen following a meeting between state governors and President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja in which the governors solicited for help from the Federal Government to cushion the effects of the economic crunch.

The governor accused Jonathan of handing out N2 billion from the Ecological Fund to each of the PDP governors without extending such generosity to governors of the All Progressives Congress.

Oshiomole further said Buhari was showing the change APC promised by accommodating governors from all the parties and that the governors were lucky to have a president they could approach on such issues.

He said: “We are very lucky to have President Buhari at this time. I have been here now for seven-and-half years and I have had the opportunity to work with three Presidents, that is the truth.”

“Under the last President, it would have been impossible for us to approach Abuja to give us support because we have personal challenges.”

“We would have been given lectures on fiscal responsibility and all those kind of talks, even though the wastage was more here than any other place at that time.”

“We now have a President who recognises that he is not just President of the Federal Government, he is the President of the federation of which the states are part and regardless of our political affiliation.”

“This is very important. Everybody is able to ask this President to give him support and he is giving, whereas in the recent past, some PDP governors got N2bn from Ecological Fund. We APC governors were not given but we promised to be different and I am happy this President is showing that difference.”

On the issue of the proposed new minimum wage, the former leader of the National Labour Congress said nobody gets everything they want in life.

“I have not seen the document proposing a new minimum wage but believing in your judgment that it is a proposal, from my own experience there is always a difference between a proposal and a final agreement.”

“Man proposes, God disposes. In the real world, nobody gets what he wants, you get what you negotiate. Any day any time, wake me up, I believe in a living wage.”

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