Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele
Fayose has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari was presiding over the most
corrupt government in the history of Nigeria and protecting looters of the
country’s commonwealth.
He said “Nigerians have seen through their deceit and
will no longer buy that fake image of integrity they are trying to sell”.
The governor said; “With the
Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, saying that
corruption has become more endemic in Nigeria than it was in the last 16 years,
with the country moving 12 places below its rating, a honourable government
would have stopped using fight against corruption as its major achievement and
releasing names of people that are still under trial as looters just to cover
up its failure.”
He said the first list of alleged
looters released by the government was politically-motivated and the second one
was an afterthought done to cover the shame of the government because Nigerians
questioned the first list.
In a release issued on Monday by
his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
Governor Fayose reiterated that Nigerians were more interested in their
welfare, security of their lives and physical development of the country than
tales of concocted lists of corrupt Nigerians, who are only corrupt in the
estimation of the government because they do not belong to the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC).
He said; “the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) never pretended to Nigerians that it had corrupt people in its fold
and the party never protected them. Today, the party has gone ahead to offload
the corrupt elements into the APC and they were not only accepted gladly into
the party, they were given prominent appointments by the President.”
The governor, who likened
President Buhari to a father who is protecting his children that are armed
robbers but calling on security agents to arrest children of his neighbour for
stealing meats from their mother’s pot, said; “For any lists of alleged looters
to be credible, the President, who is protecting looters should be number one
while those looters in his government should follow.
“His nomination form was bought
with proceeds of corruption and those who bought the form and financed his election
were paid back with the return of all their seized properties, ministerial
appointments and even disappearance of prosecution witnesses in EFCC cases,” he
said.
Speaking further, Fayose said; “A
government that reinstated and promoted Abdullahi Maina, who was declared
wanted for corrupt practices by the International Police Organisation,
(INTERPOL) and dismissed in 2013 for alleged N2.1 billion pension fraud and used
APC broom to sweep the $25 billion contracts scam in the NNPC under the carpet
is nothing but a government of plunderers and that is the clear definition of
Buhari’s government.
“It was in this same government
that the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole suspended the National Health
Insurance Scheme Executive Secretary, Professor Usman Yusuf for alleged
corruption and the President recalled him even without the knowledge of the
Minister.
“Up till today, nothing has
happened to the probe panel on the alleged N500 million bribery said to have
been paid to the President’s Chief of Staff (COS), Abba Kyari by officials of
MTN to influence government to discontinue its heavy stance on the $5 billion
fine imposed on the company.
“Therefore, no matter how hard
they try now, they can no longer hoodwink Nigerians with their deceit of fight
against corruption. Even APC Senator, Shehu Sani once said that the President
uses insecticide to fight corruption involving his perceived political
opponents, but use deodorant when it comes it affects his own men.”
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