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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