BudgITng co-founder, Seun Onigbinde has stated that he doesn’t regret taking up the Federal Government appointment which he resigned from few days ago.
Shortly after taking up the appointment, Seun Onigbinde received lots of backlash from people who wondered why a critic of the Buhari administration would accept an appointment from the government.
Few days later, he resigned from the role, making it clear via a tweet that it had nothing to do with the criticism he received.
In an interview with Punch, Seun Onigbinde revealed that he doesn’t regret taking up the appointment.
“Following your ordeal , do you regret taking up appointment as the technical adviser to the Minister of State for Budget ?
No. I don ’ t regret it . I feel that this is one of the greatest things I have ever done in my life , apart from resigning from a commercial bank . If you look on the flipside , would I have had the moral authority to continue criticising the government from outside , if it were said that I turned down an invitation to come and make some changes to Nigeria ’ s budgeting system ? It is like the proverbial man and his donkey . If you say yes or no you ’ re damned . A man ’ s conscience is his biggest guide and that is why I will not be discouraged . I satisfied my conscience . It was one of the goals I had when we were setting up BudgIT”.