The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of giving N2 billion each to state governors elected on the platform of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, as ecological fund during his regime.
Oshiomhole said the largesse never got to state governors elected on the platform of other parties.
Speaking to State House correspondents on the bailout fund approved for the states by President Muhammad Buhari, who was elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Oshiomhole said if Jonathan had been at the helm of affairs, other parties would have been sidelined.
He said this showed the magnanimity of Buhari.
He said: “We are very lucky to have President Buhari at this time.
“I have been here now for seven-and-half years and I have had the opportunity to work with three Presidents.
“That is the truth.
“Under the last President, it would have been impossible for us to approach Abuja to give us support because we have personal challenges.
“We would have been given lectures on fiscal responsibility and all those kind of talks, even though the wastage was more here (federal level) than any other place at that time.
“We now have a President who recognises that he is not just President of the Federal Government, he is the President of the federation, of which the states are part and regardless of our political affiliations.
“This is very important.
“Everybody is able to ask this President to give him support and he is giving.
“Whereas in the recent past, some PDP governors got N2 billion from the Ecological Fund.
“We the APC governors were not given, but we promised to be different and I am happy this President is showing that difference.”
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