Oshiomhole To Okonjo-Iweala: Blackmail Won’t Save Your Case- By Patrick Ochoga

The raging war between Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole and former minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday continued unabated with the later declaring that there is nothing personal in the fight against the embattled minister over the mismanagement of the nation’s resources that led to her present woes.
Oshiomhole reiterated that Okonjo-Iweala should as a matter of urgency “come clean on the issue of revenue that accrued to the Excess Crude Account” as “much as her spokesman tries to dramatise his response in defence of his boss”.
He challenged the former minister to tell Nigerians and the whole world “what happened to the ECA withdrawals?”
Governor Oshiomhole in a statement by the special adviser on Media and Publicity , Prince Kassim Afegbua in Benin, the state capital, lashed at Dr. Okonjo-Iweala for changing her position four times in the last 40 days and that each position exposes her dubiety of facts and inherent contradictions in the concocted tales she has been weaving on one simple issue.
While questioning “what happened to the $2.1 billion ECA funds” the governor expressed shock over “how come those accruals into the Excess Crude Account got depleted without the knowledge of the National Economic Council and how come monies that were supposed to accrue into the said account cannot be found in it going by the balance sheet provided by the former minister?”

Culled from Leadership