Loot Whot?? It's My Statee's Maaney!!!

Pressman(PM): Your Excellency, do you believe your prosecutors are fair in bringing you to court in this box of a vehicle?
Fmr Governor(FmG): Don't call them prosecutors, suggesting that they are enforcing the law. No, they are distorting the constitution! They are persecuting us. We are accountable to our electorates through the house of assembly. Not to any alien agencies! This is a mockery of true federalism! Period.

PM: But there is outrage in your state on this matter. People are calling for full probe of your regime and associates.
FmG: Who told you so? Those hired scoundrels? Why is it now they are screaming? They should have gone to the legislature during our stewardship.

PM: But they say most governors more or less had those parliamentarians in their "pockets". That's why no state ever probed or even properly supervised the governor or bureaucracy.
FmG: Did they probe or supervise the president? What happened was party supremacy - you toe the party line! And that was how to survive the federal onslaught - the Abuja Demons! Why do you people got automatic tickets for second term? And someone even sought Third Term!

PM: The family affair doctrine, kwo?
FmG: Yes! Now they are looking for scape-goats. They will fail!

PM: You really think so?
FmG: Yes! We're all in this together!! Democracy has now held for eight years. EIGHT good years, do you understand? WE held the states! WE kept things together, and peaceful. WE, the governors DID it, my friend!

PM: But some of your colleagues are already singing, sir!
FmG: Well, they know what orchestra they belong to. I'm not a parrot or musician. We all agreed on true federalism, if they change their tune now, that is their own business. They are playing with fire! They are compounding their case!!

PM: We have seen one conviction already, sir. There are talks about plea bargain in the air, too.
FmG: Na dem sabi wetin dem dey bargain o! Me, I stand on, by, and for true federalism.

PM: So, you don't accept the charges or allegations or even the wide-spread agitations they now elicit?
FmG: Please don't upset me the more. I've had a rough and disrespectful brush with those so-called anti-corruption agencies! What charges? What allegation? Who is agitating? On what???

PM: On the question of treasury-looting, sir.
FmG: Hey, stop calling our tenure by that dirty name! Looting? What nonsense! They money belongs to our people. It is my state's resources, isn't it?

PM: Did you spend it on the state or its populace, sir? After all, there is so much evidence of...
FmG: Stop! Just stop right there!! This interview is over...bloody hell. You journalists are part and parcel of the confusion and witch-hunt...

PM: But sir, is....
Former Governor: (storms off!)

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