An interview Former Anambra state
governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju (1999 to 2003) had with 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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