This has indeed generated heated exchanges that are somewhat a show of shame, in my estimated opinion.
What has changed? Elections are around the corner, and state governors are scooping monies from every avenue to plunge into political campaigns. This time around, the claims made by the consultants could not stand because it would affect their earnings. I wonder how any right-thinking person would claim that the consultants were due to be paid $418 million.
What I find curious in the ensuing melee and the claims made by the Nigerian Governors Forum is that the governors’ forum, comprising all the governors, sat, commonly agreed on the engagement of consultants to provide certain services for them relating to the recovery of the Paris Club. So, it was the governors’ forum under the federal government in the first place that engaged the consultants.
When they decided to stop the payment, the consultants instituted an action in court against the governors’ forum. And what happened in court? They submitted to consent judgment. They asked and urged the court to allow them to settle out of court. This much was corroborated by the Federation’s Attorney General when he recently stated that the court granted the governors an opportunity to settle out of court.
With the above, any discerning mind would conclude that the governors are trying to be clever by half unless the Governor’s Forum acted without the consensus of the governors of the 36 states of the federation. And if that was the case, whose fault is it?
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