The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress,
Omoyele Sowore, has said that his administration will probe past governments if
elected into office in the 2023 presidential election.
Sowore made this statement via his verified Twitter handle,
@yeleSowore, on Saturday.
Recall that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party,
Peter Obi, had said that if elected into office in the 2023 elections, his
administration would not carry out a witch-hunt of previous governments.
Obi stated this in an interview with journalists shortly
after unveiling an educationist, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, as his running
mate on Friday.
“As for probing the past government, let me tell you: you
see me argue that you can’t close your shop and be chasing thieves, those who
only look at yesterday and today will miss tomorrow. God did not give us eyes
at the back, mine is to look forward.
“If you come into the government today and decide to stop
the leakage first, you will get more. I am not going to be part of any form of
victimisation or witch-hunt, it won’t happen. Nigerians must live within law
and order,” Obi said.
Meanwhile, unlike Obi, Sowore said if the country could be
retrieving money from late General Sanni Abacha, nothing should stop the
country from retrieving from living government officials found culpable of
looted funds.
He said, “As President of Nigeria, I will probe and retrieve
every penny stolen by past Nigerian rulers, those who have murdered innocents
and deprived them of a bright future. If we could be retrieving money from dead
and buried Sanni Abacha, we should retrieve from living legendary thieves.”
Retweeting Sowore’s tweet, Sowore’s running mate, Haruna
Magashi, posted, “There will be no exemptions, all political thieves, past and
present will be stripped under our administration. Stolen funds from Nigerians
must be taken back.”
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