The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele
Fayose, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to start his
anti-corruption fight by probing those that sponsored his election to
reveal their sources of income.
Fayose said, “Some of those who sponsored
the President’s election have not done any other jobs apart from
holding public offices. Yet, they provided private jets and funds with
which the President campaigned across the length and breadth of Nigeria.
He should let Nigerians know where they got money to buy private jets
and the several billions of naira spent on his election.
“No one sits with corruption to fight
corruption because as it is today, President Buhari is sitting among
corrupt people and he must first extricate himself from the comity of
corruption”.
Fayose,
who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and
New Media, Lere Olayinka, on Wednesday took a swipe at the Federal
Government anti-corruption drive, describing it as mere noise-making,
witch-hunt and diversionary tactic to hoodwink the public into
overlooking the seeming failure of the government to deliver on its
electoral promises.
The governor said, “If President
Mohammadu Buhari knows exactly where the stolen funds are kept and who
looted the funds, he does not need all these public announcements.
Rather, he should make public names of the looters and bring back the
purported stolen funds, location of which he has identified. It is when
he is able to bring back the money that he should make announcements of
recovered funds.
“You don’t announce a process to the
public; rather, you announce the results because that is what is of
interest to the people. It is like you are announcing that you know
where armed robbers reside, won’t they change their location?
“What the All Progressives Congress
spin-doctors and their collaborators in the Presidency are doing is
simple. It is such that when there is nothing to tell the people as per
the rising Boko Haram attacks, dollar and other foreign currencies
exchange rates, petrol pump price and other seeming failed promises of
the APC Federal Government, they will accuse former President Goodluck
Jonathan and his men of corruption, insult Peoples Democratic Party and
make noise about fighting corruption.”
He said President Buhari and his men
should know that Nigeria of today is different from that of 1983 and
that unlike 1983, nothing could prevent them from asking questions.
“Mr. President and his men should know
that these planned efforts to brand PDP as a party of corrupt people and
suppress the giant strides of the Jonathan administration won’t work
because Nigerians know that APC is peopled with more corrupt people and
the President must treat the issue of corruption without looking at
political parties.”
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