DAILY TRUST
A former Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, says a professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, was blacklisted by the Ogun State House of Assembly under his administration because of Utomi’s alleged predilection for shoddy business deals.
Utomi had narrated how he suffered to pay back millions of naira in loans after Amosun allegedly cancelled a contract he (Utomi) had with the State government.
He also alleged that a prominent indigene of Ogun committed suicide over cancellation of a contract under the Amosun administration.
Utomi was reacting to Amosun’s statement on the controversial Arbitration and legal matters between a Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co Lt, and the Federal Government of Nigeria/Ogun State Government on the termination of the contract at the Ogun/Guangdong Free Trade Zone.
The contract was initiated when Gbenga Daniel was the Governor of the State in 2007, but terminated under Amosun’s watch in 2016.
Amosun on Saturday explained that he cancelled the contract with the Chinese firm in 2016 after the Ogun government discovered that the firm’s claims were false.
The former governor fired back at Utomi in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, saying Utomi “is still sulking because I refused to feed his entitlement mentality.”
Amosun, while responding to Utomi’s post on X, also hinted that “the Ogun State House of Assembly had already declared Utomi persona non grata and described him as an enemy of state as a result of his predilection for shoddy business deals in the state.”
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