Targeting Only Your Opponents While Fighting Corruption Is Corruption, Fayose Blasts Buhari
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of targeting only his opponents in his fight against corruption.
The governor, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka said Buhari was shielding members of his government from probe.The statement wondered why several petitions relating to the defence from 2007 have been discarded and why several petitions against leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are not being looked into.
Fayose said, “It is now obvious to the entire world that anyone that is in President Buhari’s good books can never be adjudged as corrupt even if such a person is caught looting the entire money in Nigeria’s treasury,” Fayose said.
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“There are many petitions relating to the defence from 2007 that are been discarded, the question is why? There are several petitions against APC leaders that are not being looked into, the question is why? Fighting corruption and targeting only opponents of the president is in itself corruption.
“Buhari’s’ Minister of Interior, Major General Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.) was Chief of Army Staff between 2008 and 2010 and the current Chief Of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai served as Director of Procurements, Defence Headquarters, from 2012 till May 2015.
“It is a fact that the committee in its terms of reference said it queried all procurement from 2007 to 2015. Even the Press Release issued was titled; ‘Third Interim Report of the Presidential Committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement from 2007 to 2015.’
“First paragraph of the committee report also indicated that it used 2007-2015 as reference, stating that the committee ‘analysed procurement contracts awarded by or for the Nigerian Army between 2007 and 2015.’
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“Questions Nigerians must now begin to ask President Buhari and his government are; where is the report of Presidential Committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement relating to 2007 to 2010? Who doctored the committee report and why?”
