President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade is nothing
but rhetoric, a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said.
Lamido, a former minister of Foreign Affairs, told the BBC Hausa
Service in an interview yesterday that he had his doubts on the Federal
Government’s commitment to taming graft, alleging that President Buhari was
“equally corrupt when he served under the late Head of State Sani Abacha.”
Buhari had served as chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust
Fund (PTF) which was established by Abacha in 1994 to provide critical
infrastructure across the country.
“He (Buhari) worked under Abacha; in fact he was the closest to
the late military ruler and when it comes to corruption, everybody knows where
Abacha’s government stands,” Lamido said.
According to him, there was nothing to show in the much touted
successes of the Buhari administration between 2015 and now in the areas of
security and fight against corruption.
“Buhari is just making noise; there’s no iota of truth in the
so-called commitment to the improvement of security and halting graft in the
country,” he said.
Lamido and many members of the PDP which was in power for 16
years - between 1999 and 2015 - have repeatedly alleged that Buhari’s fight
against corruption was one-sided, saying only members of the opposition were
being targeted.
“It’s unthinkable to say that the EFCC had discovered huge
monies (nearly N15 billion) in a building (Osborne Towers) in Lagos but could
not track the real owner; who leaked the story? Who did the source say is the
owner of the find?
“No reasonable person will believe that there is no safe for the
NIA (which claimed ownership) to keep its money but a private residence in
Lagos; those in position of authority should always have the courage to tell
the led the truth because leadership is sacred,” he said.
-Daily Trust
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