President Muhammadu Buhari has
been urged not to consider former Bauchi State Governor, Mohammed Abubakar for
any ministerial or political appointment.
A civil society group, Coalition
against Financial Crimes and Injustice (CFCI), gave the advice yesterday at a
press briefing in Bauchi.
According to the chairman of the
group, Alhaji Bibi Dogo, by appointing people facing allegations of corruption,
the image of the Buhari administration as being intolerant of corruption would
be dented.
He alleged that the ex-governor
was a nemesis to the progress and development of Bauchi state when he ruled the
state for four years without completing any single project despite the billions
of naira he collected from the federation account.
He, therefore, prayed that Buhari
shouldn’t consider nominating the former governor as a member of his yet to be
constituted cabinet or for any other political appointment.
“We are giving this advice
because our organization believes in the administration of Buhari whose track
record is fighting corruption, corrupt practices and entrenching truth, honesty
and integrity. We advise that the President should appoint his cabinet in a
manner that will ensure they do not become liabilities to the government or dent
his impeccable image,” Dogo said.
He implored the President to be
circumspect in appointing ex-governor Abubakar as minister so as not to appear
insensitive to the people and counter-productive in the eyes of Nigerians.
“By allowing him to acquire afresh
political power from the back door as minister,” Dogo said may not augur well
for the people of Bauchi state who voted him out of power due to
non-performance.
He further declared that
appointing the former governor could hurt Buhari’s next level agenda.
“I served in the transition
committee and it is on record that Governor Abubakar left Bauchi with over N137
billion debts,” Dogo alleged.
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