The smoke of the controversial $16bn expenses on power is not over yet as the Presidency has told former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, that President Muhammadu Buhari is like a soldier in war front and does not have the “fleeting moment to bother about mosquito bites and political innuendos.”
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in an interview with journalists in Abuja.
Garba was responding to Obasanjo’s claim on the $16 billion power projects where the ex-President was quoted to have said Presidential Aides should read his earlier response to the case and educate Buhari in the language he understands.
In his response to Obasanjo’s statement, he said,: “With due respect to the former President, no story I’d complete without a chance of hearing from the other side. The wisdom of the late prominent playwright and essayist, Chinua Achebe, comes handy here .
“He once wrote that ‘until lionesses become historians, the story of hunting will always make heroes of hunters.’ President is not given to much talking.
“He asked, ‘Where is the power?’ Truly, if $16 bn was drawn from the national treasury towards power supply, how many Nigerians would accept it as money well spent? More so, as uninterrupted power supply is still an El Dorado best imagined.
“By the way, a retiree does have a lot of time at his disposal to dramatise his feelings and should be allowed to enjoy just that. It is not in the character of President Buhari to insult or denigrate others.
“Like a soldier in the war front, President Buhari really does not have the fleeting moment to bother about mosquito bites and political innuendos.
He is focused on fixing the wrongs of the past and placing Nigeria on a new pedestal of equitable growth and development,” the presidential spokes man said.
