Buhari should be number one on looters’ lists, followed by those in his govt –Fayose

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has argued that for the alleged lists of looters to be credible, that the name of President Muhammadu Buhari should appear as number one, for protecting looters, followed by alleged looters in his government.

Fayose, who is also the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum chairman, also said that President Buhari was presiding over the most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria and protecting looters of the country’s commonwealth.

According to him, Nigerians have seen through APC government “deceit” and will no longer buy the “fake image of (Buhari) integrity” the party is trying to sell.

Fayose said, “With the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, saying that corruption has become more endemic in Nigeria than it was in the last 16 years, with the country moving 12 places below its rating, a honourable government would have stopped using fight against corruption as its major achievement and releasing names of people that are still under trial as looters just to cover up its failure.”

The governor further said that the first list of alleged looters released by the Federal Government was politically motivated and that the second one was an afterthought that was done to cover the shame of the government because Nigerians questioned the first list.

He stated this in a release issued on Monday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.

Governor Fayose reiterated that Nigerians were more interested in their welfare, security of their lives and physical development of the country than tales of concocted lists of corrupt Nigerians, who are only corrupt in the estimation of the government because they do not belong to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He said, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) never pretended to Nigerians that it had corrupt people in its fold and the party never protected them. Today, the party has gone ahead to offload the corrupt elements into the APC and they were not only accepted gladly into the party, they were given prominent appointments by the President”.

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The governor, who likened President Buhari to a father who is protecting his children that are armed robbers but calling on security agents to arrest children of his neighbour for stealing meats from their mother’s pot, said, “For any lists of alleged looters to be credible, the President, who is protecting looters should be number one while those looters in his government should follow.

“His nomination form was bought with proceeds of corruption and those who bought the form and financed his election were paid back with the return of all their seized properties, ministerial appointments and even disappearance of prosecution witnesses in EFCC cases,” the governor said.

 

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