How ex-president gave N2b to PDP Governors

The Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai has alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan shared N2b each among Governors of states belonging to the People Democratic Party (PDP) in 2013.

El-Rufai said this while speaking to State House correspondents after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday, May 25, 2017.

The Kaduna state Governor said the money was taken from the National Ecological Fund.

According to Daily Post, he said “Essentially what President Goodluck Jonathan did was to take N2bn each from the ecological fund and give to some PDP states. “

El-Rufai also said that the former President deliberately ignored all Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) states.

“The committee established beyond all doubts that in 2013, the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan gave N2bn to certain states of the federation but excluded other states,” he added.

In 2013, the ACN was still trying to merge with the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to form the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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El-Rufai also said “The states that got it were all PDP states and states of other parties that were sympathetic to the PDP like Labour Party in Ondo and APGA in Anambra state. 19 states and the FCT did not get the N2bn from the ecological fund. These states are Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Borno, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Kwara and Lagos.

“Others are Nassarawa, Niger, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe, Zamfara and the federal capital territory.

“Any PDP state that was not his friend like Kano and Kwara didn’t get it. And all the other opposition party, like ACN state got nothing. No ANPP state got anything.”

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has consistently maintained that the allegations of corruption being levelled against him are politically motivated.