The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has lambasted Senate President, Bukola Saraki over his ‘2019 presidential
ambition’.
APC National Publicity Secretary,
Yekini Nabena, in a statement on Monday, said Saraki cannot pass integrity and
anti-corruption test.
He said: “In a recent interview
with the international news organization, Bloomberg, the Senate President, Dr.
Bukola Saraki unsurprisingly declared his intention to contest the 2019
Presidency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“Against the backdrop of the
litany of corruption allegations trailing the Senate President, Saraki’s
declaration, brings to the fore our earlier call to anti-graft agencies to
check the use of stolen public funds to finance elections in this country. We
reiterate our position that the Nigerian electorate must have the opportunity
to choose from candidates that can pass the integrity and anti-corruption test.
“Let us refresh our memory on
some of Saraki’s corruption allegations: Allegations of fraud which led to the
collapse of the Saraki family-owned Société Générale Bank (Bukola Saraki who
was Director of the defunct bank was indicted over N1bn alleged to have been
looted from the bank’s treasury).
“Misappropriation of Kwara State
funds, disregard of government due process and conversion of State government
assets into his and cronies when he served as two-term governor of Kwara State.
“History of betrayals, treachery
and sabotage – Family, political party (PDP, APC), Senate, government.
Saraki was questioned by the
Nigeria Police Special Fraud Unit over an N11 billion financial scandal at the
defunct Intercontinental Bank.
“Gluttonous property acquisitions
and hidden multi-billion dollar assets spread across the world as disclosed by
the Panama Papers revelations.
The multi-million dollar white
elephant Shonga Agricultural Project in Kwara State when Saraki served as
two-term governor.
“Falsification of Senate standing
order: Saraki’s link to the N298m armoured Range Rover SUV seized by the
Nigeria Customs Service.
“Saraki is link to $19.5b Paris
Club Loan refund scandal, he oversaw budget padding in the National Assembly among other numerous corruption
scandals.
“Nigerians should be wary of a
man whose personal ambition will always supersede the interest of the majority
and national interest as currently displayed in the National Assembly.
“While Saraki refuses to
reconvene the National Assembly, the 2019 election budget of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) is dangerously delayed, an action deliberately
taken to sabotage INEC’s ability to conduct free, fair, transparent and
credible elections in 2019.
“While Saraki refuses to step
down as Senate President as rightly and severally demanded by the APC-dominated
Senate, he is bent on foisting a PDP-minority rule (Senate President and Deputy
Senate President) in the Upper Legislative House
“The only politics that Bukola
Saraki plays is self, himself only and only himself. The interest and welfare
of the people of Nigeria do not mean anything to him. Now it is the Presidency
Saraki wants.
“And we ask with what antecedents
is he doing this? Conspiracy, blackmail, treachery and vaulting ambition which
overleaps itself and falls on the other, as rightly captured by William
Shakespeare. Bukola Saraki will rather rule in hell than serve in paradise.
“Ahead of 2019 elections,
Nigerians must ensure that we never again entrust the leadership of this great
country to thieves whose sole aim is treasury looting and returning us to the
dark ages where impunity and institutionalized corruption was the order of the
day.”
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