Senator
Musiliu Obanikoro who
was an ambassador and minister under PDP and at a time was the highest ranking
politician from Lagos State in the last PDP government
has since decamped to
APC after he lost the last governorship elections in Lagos.
In a recent
interview with Global Excellence, he narrated his subsequent ordeal
in the hands of EFCC saying, 'That matter is
better left untouched. I will tell you why. For me, it is just politics. Every
one of us, APC, PDP, we are all guilty of using government money for elections.
That is it. If we want to clean the system, let us clean it at once so that
nobody uses government money again for elections. I did not benefit a kobo from
the money. We were given money and we gave each state their due, we gave Governor
Fayose, we gave others too. So, it’s not as if any money came to me. But
people would rather play politics with everything than speak the truth of the
matter. As I have said, few months ago, they passed the law that compels all
political parties to advertise their donors. That is how you can clean up the
system. If we say, okay we are the one in government, it is okay for us to use
government money and it’s not okay for those who are not in government to do
so, the system is not going to benefit anyone at the end of the day'.
He was asked
about the money he said he gave Governor Fayose and the governor's denial.
Obanikoro said, 'well, the system knows the truth. I don’t even want to
join issues with him because we only got to know each other only when he became
governor. But the authorities know what happened to the money, and they are
pursuing it. That’s all I have to say'.
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