Sandra Chiefe
Moderator
Nigeria’s embattled aviation minister, Stella Oduah, will not resign and those who claim the House of Representatives had called for her resignation or sack should go back to school, she said on Tuesday in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria.
Oduah said federal lawmakers had neither indicted her nor called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack her.
When asked by a journalist during an inspection of the recently remodeled facilities at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport whether or not she would resign from her position following the recommendation the federal lawmakers had made to the President, the frustrated Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah replied, "I think it means you don’t read or you probably don’t understand English because I read it too. What is there is that Mr. President can and should review. That is what they said there. Probably, you should go back to school.”
The House asked President Goodluck Jonathan to decide whether he should continue to retain her services as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Major recommendations by the committee that investigated whether or not the Minister had broken the Appropriations Act by her purchase of two bulletproof vehicles on behalf of the Ministry of Aviation read, “The House urges the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to review the continued engagement of the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, for having contravened the Appropriation Act, 2013 and the approved, revised thresholds by exceeding the Ministry of Aviation’s approval limit of N100m by the purchase of 54 vehicles valued at N643m.”
Oduah has since described the actions of the committee as premeditated and with a hidden agenda.
It is obvious that Oduah will not give up her position easily.
Oduah said federal lawmakers had neither indicted her nor called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack her.
When asked by a journalist during an inspection of the recently remodeled facilities at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport whether or not she would resign from her position following the recommendation the federal lawmakers had made to the President, the frustrated Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah replied, "I think it means you don’t read or you probably don’t understand English because I read it too. What is there is that Mr. President can and should review. That is what they said there. Probably, you should go back to school.”
The House asked President Goodluck Jonathan to decide whether he should continue to retain her services as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Major recommendations by the committee that investigated whether or not the Minister had broken the Appropriations Act by her purchase of two bulletproof vehicles on behalf of the Ministry of Aviation read, “The House urges the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to review the continued engagement of the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, for having contravened the Appropriation Act, 2013 and the approved, revised thresholds by exceeding the Ministry of Aviation’s approval limit of N100m by the purchase of 54 vehicles valued at N643m.”
Oduah has since described the actions of the committee as premeditated and with a hidden agenda.
It is obvious that Oduah will not give up her position easily.