Former Anambra state governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju (1999 to 2003) tells
Saturday Punch:
Well, a godfather has many connotations. You could have positive
godfathers and negative ones. The good ones work towards making things
work and succeed but if you have a godfather that is always challenging,
he wants to make appointments, if you have 10 commissioners, he would
want to have three or four. After you have given him two commissioners,
he will say he wants Special Advisers, Special Assistants and he will
even want to choose their portfolios but I said these things are not
done like that and they said it is done like that, that is controversy.
There is a godfather who had an
arrangement with the military that he would be paid N10m every month, I
wasn’t there when the agreement was made. When I tried to stop it, I was
dragged to President Obasanjo’s office and I told Obasanjo this is the
situation I found on ground and Obasanjo said I had to go back and
continue paying it; that it was legal. At what stage did I renege? They
will always try to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it. Obasanjo
gave them contracts worth billions of naira, they were super rich, there
was nothing I could give to them.
You mean Obasanjo asked you to pay this godfather; who is he?
Yes, Obasanjo asked me to pay. The godfather is one of the Uba family.
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