The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has said that heaven will not fall if former President Olusegun Obasanjo is tried for the $16 billion expended in the execution of the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) under his administration.
Obasanjo had admitted at several fora that he regretted not being able to give Nigerians power despite the huge expenditure on the NIPP.
Sagay accused Obasanjo of behaving like a hypocrite.
The Vanguard quoted Sagay as saying, “I did not say heaven won’t fall if Obasanjo is jailed; what I said was that heavens wouldn’t fall if Obasanjo is tried. I was asked whether it was possible for Obasanjo to be tried, I said yes. While the government is not willing, it is a matter for legal prosecution if it happens; heaven will not fall.
“It is the trial and not the jailing. He is not the only one to be tried, but that was the specific term I was asked because of his ‘I am very pure and better than everybody’ attitude. He pretends and behaves like a hypocrite, a person who puts himself up as something that he is not and then condemns all other people like what these Jewish Pharisees used to do. We cannot tolerate that sort of thing in this country.
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