Atiku Abubakar, presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused President
Muhammadu Buhari of covering up corrupt practices in the Nigerian military.
He also called on the president
to release the report of the probe panel that investigated alleged corruption
in arms procurement in the military from 2007 to 2015.
Atiku made the call in a
statement issued on Sunday by Phrank Shaibu, his special assistant on public
communications.
He was speaking in reaction to
the recent Boko Haram attacks on the military in Borno state and parts of the
Lake Chad Basin.
Atiku told Buhari that the said
report could be released unofficially if “further attempts were made to silence
members of the committee or those with knowledge of the massive corruption
which took place and is still taking in time”.
‘‘There is no gainsaying that
Buhari has got his priorities wrong and has acted in a manner that suggests
total disregard for human lives,” the statement read.
“Or how else does one explain a
situation where citizens, including security agents, are being hacked down daily
by the Boko Haram insurgents and all the government is doing is to waste time
and resources on an undeserving re-election bid?’’
Atiku said if Buhari had spent
half of the resources devoted to his re-election bid on the Boko Haram crisis,
“it would have been resolved and hundreds of precious lives would have been
saved”.
He also urged him to probe
reported “massive” corruption in the purchase of defense equipment and
consumables, including the feeding of troops.
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