Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that the constituency projects embarked upon by lawmakers was a means of corruption.

Obasanjo said this at the opening of a two-day investment forum organised by the Niger State Government in Minna on Monday.

Obasanjo said, “The Sultan talked about roads, I hope our lawmakers will use their position and act positively so that when they put in road projects in the budget they will not turn it into what they now term as constituency projects.

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“You and I know what constituency projects mean. It is simply corruption.”

The former President had repeatedly described the lawmakers as corrupt individuals, forcing them to call him “the father of corruption in Nigeria.”

“If there is anything that will take us out of recession, it is agriculture; that is the only renewable business we can do to give us all the job creation, wealth creation that we need,” he added.

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