A former Chairman,
Senate Committee on Water Resources, Senator Joseph Waku, on Tuesday in Kaduna
asked President Muhammadu Buhari to either probe former President
Olusegun Obasanjo or forget about his current war against corruption in
the country.
He also predicted that without Buhari, the
governing party was bound to lose the 2019 general election.
He said Nigerians would not take President
Buhari’s fight against corruption seriously if Obasanjo was left
untouched by anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission.
The 4th Republic
Senator said he had already told the President that Nigerians would only take
his ant-corruption seriously if the likes of Obasanjo, whom he claimed
introduced corruption to Nigeria, were probed.
Waku, in an interview with journalists on
the sideline at the ongoing Annual General Assembly of the Arewa Consultative
Forum on Tuesday in Kaduna, said, “Look, I am 70 years old now and
have been in this game for more than 50 years.
“Therefore, there is no way I can just look at
some totality of what people are saying about corruptionand believe it as it
has been reported to me. If I have an investigating mechanism, I know that this
accusation is real obviously.
“I have access to authority. I have access to
Mr. President. I told Mr. President that this corruption probe of past regimes,
if you don’t probe Obasanjo, then you haven’t done anything yet. Corruption in
Nigeria was introduced by Obasanjo.”
The APC chieftain insisted that without Buhari,
the ruling party would lose the 2019 general election.
He said the party won the last election because
most of the politicians on the platform of the APC rode on Buhari’s honesty to
win the 2015 election, noting that the party wouldn’t have won that election in
the first place.
-Punch
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