Abia State Governor Alex Otti has said he stands by his 2020 statement concerning former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi’s handling of $155 million while he was governor.
Otti made the clarification during an interview with Arise
Television while responding to questions about the statement, which he said was
written on June 8, 2020.
According to him, the statement was intended to demonstrate
that it was possible for public officials to be prudent in managing government
resources.
“They are referring to what I wrote in 2020. I think that
was June 8, 2020. I was using it to prove that it’s still possible for people
to be prudent in government.
“It’s an account of what happened. And I had said that as
the CEO of the bank at that time, he was going to leave the money in naira, and
when he came to me and I said no, this naira you want to keep, naira will keep
losing value.
“So you probably want to convert it to dollars, and it was
converted.
“So it’s a statement of fact, and it’s something that
happened several years, six years ago. So I haven’t spoken again, and so that’s
what they are referring to,” Otti said.
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