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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