Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele
Fayose has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop being hypocritical about
his fight against corruption
.
He told Buhari to first rid his
government and the APC of corrupt elements.
”Someone needs to tell the
President that Nigerians no longer believe in his anti-corruption fight
because he harbours the most corrupt Nigerians in his government”, he said.
Buhari had during the
presentation of the book, ’Making Steady Sustainable Progress’, declared
that any public official caught will go to jail.
In a statement on Friday by his
spokesman, Lere Olayinka, Fayose asked: “How many of those indicted of
corruption in President Buhari’s government has he jailed? Isn’t it the
height of hypocrisy for a President that is using APC broom to sweep
corruption involving his men under the carpet to be talking about jailing
anyone caught stealing public fund?”
The governor, who insisted that
President Buhari was only hiding under anti-corruption fight to harass
his perceived political foes, said,
“We have a President who is the
Life Patron of Corruption in Nigeria. His government is not only corrupt, the
government itself is corruption! Sadly, our President is still carrying on
with the mindset that Nigerians are still listening to his lyrics of ‘we are
fighting
corruption.
“Today, it is seventeen days
since President Buhari sacked the suspended Secretary to the Government of
the Federation SGF, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General, National
Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, has any of them been arrested by the
EFCC?
“Apart from sacking Oke, has
President Buhari told Nigerians any other thing about the $43 million
discovered in the Osbourne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos apartment? Who owns the
apartment?
“What has happened to those
involved in the fraudulent reinstatement of the former Chairman of the
Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdullahi Maina, who was
declared wanted for corrupt practices by the International Police
Organisation, (INTERPOL) after he was dismissed from office by the Civil
Service Commission in 2013 for allegedly committing N2.1 billion pension
fraud while in office? Why hasn’t Maina been arrested by the EFCC up till
now?
“Isn’t the same Abba Kyari, who
was accused of collecting N500 million bribe from MTN still Buhari’s Chief of
Staff? Has anything been heard about the $5 billion fine imposed on MTN by
the federal government after Abba Kyari allegedly received the N500 million
bribe?
“Methinks President Buhari should
face the reality that there are people in his government that should be in
jail by now for corruption. Not until he jails those corrupt elements that
are wining and dining with him, Nigerians will continue to liken his threat
to jail anyone who steals pubic fund with a cow thief threatening to jail a
fowl thief.”
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The current members running Buhari's administration are corrupt. No doubt. Buhari is just trying to avoid the truth.
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