Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti state
governor, says President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over the most corrupt
government in Nigeria’s history.
Fayose said in a statement issued
on Monday by Lere Olayinka, his special assistant on public communications and
new media.
He alleged that Buhari’s fight
against corruption is selective as it “protects and rewards” looters who
decamped from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said the first looters list
released by the government was politically motivated while the second was an
afterthought “to cover the shame” of the government because Nigerians
questioned the first.
“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,” the
statement read.
“Nigerians have seen through
their deceit and will no longer buy that fake image of integrity they are
trying to sell.
“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.
Fayoser accused Buhari of his
complicity in “fanning the flames of corruption” by citing specific cases which
according to him are still “unresolved.”
The statement read: “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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