Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, cleared air on tenure of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) as head of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), saying nothing was really amiss in Buhari’s public life.
“When you (Buhari) were going to become manager of PTF, we talked about it and when you finished and I took over, we looked into it.
“I haven’t said this publicly, I would say it publicly now. When we looked into it, there was really nothing amiss except that that organisation went from road building into mosquito net buying and all sorts of thing. And what the investigation discovered is a bit of inconsistency in prices and all that. In one area, mosquito net might have been given for N50; in another, N45. And then, we remarked that this is fishy. We should look into it.
“And I called my brother and colleague (Buhari), I said this and he said ‘look, we are managing billions of Naira and I tried to make sure I see everything. But I will not say that what they have said about this is correct or not correct. But I can assure you, I tried to see everything.’ I said okay. Muhammadu, between me, you and God, was there any personal benefit for you? And you said no. I said that is the end of the matter. Although there was that investigation, its report was not of any material importance,” Obasanjo said. (News Express)