Atiku lists 4 cases that show Buhari has compromised in fight against corruption

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar, has taken a critical look at the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, and concluded that the president has compromised his much tainted stand in the fight against corruption.

Atiku, a presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a statement on Thursday, also insisted that Buhari is power drunk.

The former Vice President had stated this in an earlier statement, but the Presidency had reacted, stating, that President Buhari is not power drunk, and would remain “uncompromising”, especially in the fight against corruption.

But in his latest reaction, Atiku listed a four cases he said shows that Buhari has compromised in the fight against corruption.

He said: “Why did the presidency do nothing as the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, went to court to secure a kangaroo court order to stop the Senate of the National Assembly from investigating who recalled, reinstated and double promoted Abdulrasheed Maina?

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“If President Buhari is ‘uncompromising in cleaning the rot Nigeria was consigned into pre-2015’ then how come the latest Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International reveals that Nigeria is more corrupt today than she was in 2015, having moved 12 steps backwards in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, moving from 136 in 2014 under the PDP to 148 today?

“Again, we ask how uncompromising a president can be when he allows a minister accused of forgery to remain at her job?”

Atiku also alleged that Buhari is surrounded by officials who do not tell him the truth.

“It appears that the president is surrounded by people who have become his echo chamber and are telling him what he wants to hear, otherwise no one in his right mind would call an administration that increased the price of petrol while at the same time paying more subsidy on the product than the previous government, which it accused of ‘subsidy scam’, uncompromising against corruption”.

According to him, “It is only common sense that if the price of petrol increased by 68 per cent from N87 per litre to N145, then the cost of fuel subsidy should also reduce, especially as the price of crude oil also reduced. However, by some strange mathematics, the Buhari administration pays a whopping N1.4 trillion on subsidy per annum according to the Minister of State for Petroleum.”

 

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