‘Looters List’ Incomplete If Buhari, Amaechi, Tinubu Missing – Fani-Kayode

The Federal Government’s recently released treasury looters list is half-finished unless it features the names of President Muhammadu Buhari, Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi, and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

This was according to former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, who equally said the list is incomplete without the names of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Power Minister Babatunde Fashola, Information Minister Lai Mohammed, and a host of other top members of President Buhari’s cabinet.

Fani-Kayode was reacting to the “looters” list recently released by the Information Minister and where he was alleged to have illegally taken N866 million from the nation’s coffers under the immediate past administration.

Reacting in a statement, the former minister said: “The fact of the matter is that no looters list is complete without the names of Muhammadu Buhari, Yemi Osinbajo, Rotimi Ameachi, Tunde Fashola, Bola Tinubu, Lai Mohammed, Adamu Abdullahi, Dambazau, Kayode Fayemi, Babachir Lawal, Maina, Maikanto Baru, Burutai, all APC Governors and other key members of the Buhari administration and the APC,” he said.

“It is common knowledge that the Buhari campaign in 2015 was funded by moneys that can be traced directly to the state governments of Rivers state, Lagos state, Kano state, Ogun state and a number of other key APC states yet not one of those involved or that governed any of those states at the time have been questioned, arrested or prosecuted by the EFCC or the federal government.

“I blame Vice-President Osinbajo who, as a professor of Law and a learned SAN, should know better and who I am reliably informed is the co-ordinator of all these politically-motivated, baseless and malicious corruption cases which are being conducted against opposition members by the EFCC.

“He is the one that has been saddled with the shameless responsibility of manipulating the prosecutors, emboldening false witnesses, attempting to pressure the judges and attempting to send innocent men and women who are members of the opposition to jail.

“One day, whether he believes it or not, there will be a reckoning for his wickedness just as there will be one for Buhari and his entire government. God will see to that and He will judge and punish them.

“The federal government’s claim that I looted 800,000,000 naira from government coffers is false.

“I reject the false label of looter and I hereby return it to sender. I did not receive and neither was I ever given one kobo by any government official, government agency or government parastatal during President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure.

“The money that I received was given to me by the Director of Finance of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mrs. Esther Nenadi Usman, before the election in 2015 and it was specifically for the conduct of the presidential election. These were private funds and not public funds and neither can anyone expect us to have run an election in 2015 without any money. You do not run election campaigns with sand but with money.”