Reno Omokri has tackled Peter Obi for urging the FG to be transparent about the use of funds from the fuel subsidy removal. This is rich coming from a man who cannot even track his own campaign spending from donations made by Nigerians in the diaspora. We listened to the embattled Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, as he regaled us with details of how Peter Obi and his cronies seized control of campaign funds, did as they wished with it, and did not put their own party into the know of how those funds were spent.....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
Moreover, this is a fellow who, as Anambra Governor, did not do what he now asks the Federal Government to do. Instead, he placed state funds into a bank where he had controlling interests and was earning money for himself at the state’s expense.
A man who hid suspicious funds away in offshore accounts until they were exposed by the Pandora Papers, which indicted him for criminal behaviour, is not in a position to pontificate as if he is a saint.
If Peter Obi cannot be accountable to his own party and cannot transparently track funds donated to his campaign or avoid a conflict of interest in handling state government funds, what moral grounds does he have to point fingers at others?