You’re Not Fighting Corruption – Ango Abdullahi Attacks Buhari

“If President Buhari was committed to fighting corruption, the nation’s courts and prisons would have been congested with corrupt politicians.” the elder statesman stated.

You’re Not Fighting Corruption – Ango Abdullahi Attacks Buhari
Professor Ango Abdullahi

Chairman, Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari is not fighting corruption in the country, stating that the prisons ought to be full by now, if he is truly fighting the social menace.

Abdullahi stated that “We have now seen corruption on a massive scale, and nobody is doing anything about it.”

The elder statesman stated this while fielding questions from journalists yesterday in Kaduna shortly after the opening ceremony of a public lecture entitled: “Education as an Instrument for National Integration: The Northern Nigeria Crisis.” 

According to the elder statesman, if President Buhari was committed to fighting corruption, the nation’s courts and prisons would have been congested with convicted corrupt politicians.

He said many corrupt politicians were going about freely because APC had forgiven them their sins, pointing out that the case that readily came to his mind was that of Senator Danjuma Goje, whose ‘sin’ was allegedly forgiven by APC.

His words: “The President said he is fighting corruption, but I don’t believe him because, in the sense that, if he is fighting corruption, our courts and prisons should be full by now. This is because corruption is everywhere.

“You don’t just pick one case and make it a universal example of fighting corruption. We have just seen the conviction of Orji Uzor Kalu and it is becoming something that the world should know, when there are so many people with seventy something billion Naira with them. Those people should be in the same prison with Uzor Kalu.

“And in any case, if you want to say that, Uzor Kalu had committed an offence, but here is a national chairman of a party, the President’s party who pronounces that, don’t worry how much you have stolen somewhere else as long as you come and say you are a member of APC, you are forgiven.

 

READ ALSO:

Minimum Wage: Lagos Should Pay Workers N100,000, No Worker Can Live With 30,000 Minimum Wage — Gbadamosi

 

"A good example of that is former Governor Danjuma Goje. It was the Attorney General of the Federation himself that went to court to say they were withdrawing the case from the court. And his offences are not different from Orji Uzor Kalu’s and many others that were reported.

"The media is equally guilty in this direction. You journalists are part of the crises that we have because you are not addressing these issues as hard, objectively and fairly.”

Speaking on the restructuring of Nigeria, the NEF leader, said, “If we are going to restructure Nigeria, we must abandon Presidential system of government. If you want Nigeria to function as it used to function in 1960 at the point of independence, we should go and reconsider retention of Presidential system of government, because it is inefficient, it is corrupt and there is no accountability.”