Nigerian Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has made it clear that he is not
under probe by the committee set up by the House of Representatives, to
investigate how the budget allocated to the State House Medical Centre
since 2015 was spent.
Jonathan, in a statement signed by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze,
said he had nothing to do with the 2015 Budget before he handed over
power to President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29 of the same year.
He therefore said there was no way his administration would be included in the expected probe of allocations to the clinic.
“The House of representatives resolved Thursday 12 October, 2015, to
probe 2015-2017 allocations to Aso Rock Clinic and some media reports
are needlessly dragging the name of former President Goodluck Jonathan
into it.
“We had thought that the media should be the first to remind
Nigerians that since Jonathan left office on May 29, 2015, he had
absolutely nothing to do with the implementation of the budget for that
year.
“For emphasis, the 2015 Appropriation Bill which was passed by the parliament in April was signed into law in May, 2015.
“And since the procurement process, based on the new procurement law,
takes at least three months to complete, there was no way Jonathan
would have had anything to do with the budget implementation for 2015,
before vacating Aso Rock Villa on May 29, 2015.
“We expect media houses to always do proper investigations to avoid
the convenient choice of always using Jonathan as the scapegoat for the
misdeeds of others,” the statement read.