The Northern Emancipation Network, NEF, and Adamawa Think Tank, ATT, said the warning was in reaction to remarks credited to the Lagos monarch saying no corrupt persons will rule Nigeria again, in apparent reference to the former vice president.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Nigerian Women Against Corruption Initiative in Lagos, on Wednesday, Mr. Akiolu vowed to work against any corrupt individual becoming Nigeria’s president again.
“I insist that this is not era for somebody who spent the first three years under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo making money and turning public corporations to his own,” Thisday newspaper had quoted Mr. Akiolu as saying at the event.
“He is planning to come back to be the President of this country again. I’ll work against his ambition. I mean it and I mean it, by God’s grace, it shall not be so,” he said.
Also, at an event organised by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice on January 30, Mr. Akiolu said Mr. Abubakar played a prominent role in convincing then president, Olusegun Obasanjo, to retire him from service.
The former vice president denied the claim.
However, in two separate statements signed by Abdul-Azeez Suleiman for NEF and Danladi DanAsabe for ATT, the groups said the recent utterances of Mr. Akiolu t amount to a “clear breach of the tenets of royalty and nobility”.
“Besides, it is unthinkable how a person who was disgraced out of the police service would have the audacity to unjustly accuse others of corruption,” Mr. Suleiman said.
“We challenge him to provide clear proofs of his allegations otherwise he remains a discredited and lying member of the royal class and a disappointment to nobility and those who hold the institution dear.
He said he wondered how a person who ascended the stool through “dubious means and surrounds himself with people of doubtful character” should speak about integrity.”
“We remind the Lagos monarch that those in glass houses don’t throw stones about. We categorically tell the monarch that he lacks the capacity to influence any political event even in Lagos, not to talk of influencing any national event,” he said.
On his part, Mr. DanAsabe said the Oba was just playing politics, “seeing that politicking for 2019 will soon begin”.
He also said “Atiku relies on the support of all Nigerians as he goes about his politics and cannot help those who harbour unnecessary fears”.
Mr. Suleiman also said that Nigerians are not in a hurry to forget the way the Lagos Oba told the Igbo community in Lagos “to go die in the lagoon during the build-up to the 2015 elections.
“This shows that it is not the first time he will shed the garb of royalty and put on the clothing of motor park tout,” he said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Atiku was and still is corrupt through and through. There are other Northerners that can rule the country. It should not be Atiku
ReplyDeleteNo Northerners who is capable of rulling Nigeria, b/c they are usually biased in most of their decision, always tey to introduce religious mentality in their decisions, also, are usually controlled by some background forces (socio groups), they don't have any semse of nation development other than hypothetical rule and divide mentality. That's one major reason Nigeria has not moved forward, but GEJ has also proven niger delta to be of rule & divide mentality. While Tinubu & some others has also make Yorubas to seem as greedy as he already sold Lagos to himself. Ibgos are difficult to trust as they will just sell the whole Nigeria without a blink of eyes. So who is fit to lead this nation to be like Dubai, UK, some fabulous nations in Asia?
ReplyDeleteThe answer to your question is Buhari, Mr integrity.
DeleteTell your kinsmen to stop playing politics with realities and help the man grow Nigeria.
This is another time we are lucky to have two Mr integrity, principal and vice not interested in accumulating public wealth neither for their families nor friends.