I WAS FORCED TO PAY A GODFATHER N10M MONTHLY AS GOVERNOR - MBADINUJU

Former Anambra state governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju (1999 to 2003) tells
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.
Hmm!