MAMBILLA, OBASANJO & THE SCAPEGOAT MENTALITY; By Dr Olu Agunloye
MAMBILLA, OBASANJO & THE SCAPEGOAT MENTALITY By Dr Olu Agunloye, former Minster of Power and Steel. 14 September 2023 PREAMBLE In August 2022, Mr Simon Kolawole first released his widely circulated contract-statement: _“Who will Love this Country?”_ as front page of the _ThisDay Newspapers_ of 21 August 2022 and again in August 2023, acting on the instructions of a former Minister of Power. The contract-statement is misleading, false, and malicious. It is calculated to divert attention from the wrongdoings of some former Power Ministers and other Government officials in respect the Mambilla Power Project. In 2022, I ignored the write-up but now that the former President has reacted to the same article that he appeared not to have seen in 2022, I will give a measured response. THE CABLE NEWS STORY _The Cable News_ story credited to Pa Obasanjo about the Mambilla Power Project gave me much concern not because they were incorrect, but because they were attributed to our *Baba A...