Obasanjo labels Constituency project as corruption

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo may have started another war with the members of the National Assembly when he described the constituency projects being embarked upon by the lawmakers as "corruption."

Obasanjo said, this at the opening of a two-day investment forum organised by the Niger State Government in Minna on Monday.

Obasanjo said, “The Sultan talked about roads, I hope our lawmakers will use their position and act positively so that when they put in road projects in the budget they will not turn it into what they now term as constituency projects."

“You and I know what constituency projects mean. It is simply corruption.”

The former President had been involved in verbal wars with the members of the National Assembly during and after his time in office.

He once, reportedly, described the federal lawmakers as a “bunch of corrupt elements,” provoking the lawmakers to, in turn, describe him as “the father of corruption in Nigeria.”

UCJ, UNILORIN.