Fayose insists Obasanjo has no moral right to preach about corruption

The governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has once again lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the lawyer’s comment on corruption.

Fayose advised the erstwhile President, who according to him remains the father of corruption, to stop accusing Nigerians of corruption.

Obasanjo had in his paper presentation on the theme, “The role of the church in the fight against corruption in Nigeria,” which he presented in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday, at the 2017 Convention Lecture of Victory Life Bible Church International, accused the church of encouraging corruption.

But reacting to that in a statement issued on Sunday through his special assistant on public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said that if anyone must accuse the church in Nigeria of promoting corruption, it certainly must not be Obasanjo.

According to Fayose, Obasanjo remains the father of corruption and presided over the most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria as president.

He questioned, “Where did Obasanjo get the stupendous wealth he is parading since he was a pauper before he became president? Where did he get the trillions of naira that he deployed to his failed third term bid?

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“How can Obasanjo, under whose tenure, Nigeria witnessed the Halliburton scandal be sermonising about corruption?”

Recalling how Obasanjo allegedly made governors donate N10million each to the building of his library, Fayose said, “Isn’t compelling state governors to make donations to the personal project of a serving president part of corruption?

“Who introduced the politics of ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags to the National Assembly? Who was the president when sacks of money were displayed on the floor of the House of Representatives as bribe money given to some Reps members to impeach the then Speaker, Ghali N’abba?

“Under whose administration was the out-of-court settlement in the controversial $1.09bn Malabu oil block initiated in 2006?”, Fayose queries.

 

 

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