Factional Chairman, All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State,
Chief Perekeme Kpodo, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to beam his
administration’s probe searchlight on former First Lady, Dame Patience
Jonathan.
He said such a development would unravel the financial excesses
allegedly perpetrated by Patience in Abuja and Bayelsa State.
Kpodo, former Interim Chairman of the defunct New Peoples
Democratic Party, stated this in an interview on Sunday.
He said, “There is the urgent need to probe the former First Lady,
Dame Patience Jonathan, for her excesses during her husband’s reign. Many of
the ministers during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan were her nominees
and so she should be investigated also.
“Her antecedents during and
after the last general elections must not be forgotten so easily. She was one
of the people who turned Aso Rock to a toll gate. The same thing happened to
Bayelsa State as treasury was looted. All these must not be swept under the
carpet. We are fully in support of President Muhammadu Buhari on his probe.”
The former Special Adviser on Security in Bayelsa State commended
the President on how he had been steering the ship of the country since he
mounted the saddle of leadership, stressing that Buhari would offer Nigerians the
needed change the party promised during its electioneering.
He said because of Buhari’s tough stance on corruption, many
would-be lobbyists for ministerial appointments were scared of him.
Kpodo also applauded Buhari for the appointment of substantive coordinator
for Presidential Amnesty Programme for the Niger Delta.
He said the gesture would tackle the rising agitation in the
region, particularly with the issue of payment of stipends to
ex-agitators and meeting the obligations of Niger Delta students on amnesty
scholarships abroad.
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