Ango Abdullahi, acting chairman
of Northern Elders Forum (NEF), says
President Muhammadu Buhari is not serious about fighting corruption.
Abdullahi spoke in an interview
with journalists in Kaduna shortly after the opening ceremony of a public
lecture on education, on Tuesday.
He said the prisons would have
been filled with corrupt politicians if the current administration is serious
about its anti-corruption war.
The elder statesman said many
corrupt politicians have been going about freely because the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) “has forgiven their sins”.
“The president said he is
fighting corruption, but I don’t believe him because, in the sense, if he is
fighting corruption, our courts and prisons should be full by now. This is
because corruption is everywhere.
“You don’t just pick one case and
make it a universal example of fighting corruption. We have just seen the
conviction of Orji Uzor Kalu and it is becoming something that the world should
know when there are so many people with seventy-something billion (naira) with
them.
“Those people should be in the
same prison with Uzor Kalu. And in any case, if you want to say that Uzor Kalu
had committed an offence, but here is a national chairman of a party, the
president’s party who pronounced that ‘don’t worry how much you have stolen
somewhere else, as long as you come and say you are a member of APC, you are
forgiven’.
“A good example of that is former
governor Danjuma Goje. It was the attorney general of the federation himself
that went to court to say they were withdrawing the case from the court.
“And his offences are not
different from Orji Uzor Kalu’s and many others that were reported.”
Also commenting on the agitation
for restructuring, Abdullahi said the presidential system of government must be
abandoned if the country is to be restructured.
“If we are going to restructure
Nigeria, we must abandon the presidential system of government,” he said.
“If you want Nigeria to function
as it used to function in 1960 at the point of independence, we should go and
reconsider retention of presidential system of government because it is
inefficient, it is corrupt and there is no accountability.
“Under the parliamentary system
of government, you cannot be a minister until you are elected from your
village.
“So, you are already accountable
to your electorate and then, the leader of your party who happens to be
president or prime minister would make a nomination, which means other members
must approve. If you are not a good man, from there you have failed.”
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com