Obaseki Repackaged FG’s Rice, Put His Name – Tinubu Minister,Minister, Momoh

The Minister for Niger Delta Development, Abubakar Momoh, has alleged that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, repackaged rice sent by the federal government as palliative for the state’s residency.

Abubakar Momoh added that Governor Obaseki put his name in the repacked rice.

The Minister said Obaseki failed to ensure equitable distribution of the rice from the federal government like his Bayelsa State counterpart, Duoye Diri.

Speaking to Channels TV, he said any governor that contradicts recieving 20 trucks of rice would be unfair to the federal government.

Momoh said: “In the case of Edo State that you just mentioned, look at what happened, you see on social media, and television how people went into warehouses, broke into warehouses and brought out these goods.

“The Edo governor, for instance, got his own and I can say in clarity that there are some state governors who of course engineered this process. Even the governor of Edo State you have just mentioned, recently when the protest started, he was the one that organized people at King Square and addressed them and at the end of the day, what did he say? He said I want to carry your message to the federal government in Abuja.

“We expect such a governor to address the problems in Edo State. How many roads has he been able to tar? How many erosions problems has he been able to solve? But rather what he does is that if the government brings relief like this, he repacks them and puts his name. We saw what happened during COVID-19 and that is something that is happening today.

“We have seen so many governors distributing relief materials, both rice and fertilizers. For instance, I watched the Bayelsa State Governor, directing that no person in government should get any dime from this rice. And the same thing on other states that I watched on TV telling them the same thing. But in the case of Edo State, there is nothing like that.”