…Predicts APC Fail In 2019 Without Buhari
Former Chairman, Senate Committee on Water Resources, Senator Joseph Waku,
has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to either probe former President
Olusegun Obasanjo or forget about his current war against corruption in
the country.
He also predicted that without Buhari, the ruling All Progressives
Congress, APC was bound to lose the 2019 general election.
He said Nigerians would not take President Buhari’s fight against
corruption seriously if Obasanjo was left untouched by anti-graft agency,
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The 4th Republic Senator
said he had already told the President that Nigerians would only take his
anti-graft war seriously if the likes of Obasanjo, whom he claimed
introduced corruption to Nigeria, were probed.
Waku, in an interview with journalists, yesterday, on the sideline at the
ongoing Annual General Assembly of the Arewa Consultative Forum, in
Kaduna, said, “Look, I am 70 years old now and have been in this game for
more than 50 years.
“Therefore, there is no way I can just look at some totality of what
people are saying about corruption and believe it as it has been reported
to me. If I have an investigating mechanism, I know that this accusation
is real obviously.
“I have access to authority. I have access to Mr. President. I told Mr.
President that this corruption probe of past regimes, if you don’t probe
Obasanjo, then you haven’t done anything yet. Corruption in Nigeria was
introduced by Obasanjo.”
The APC chieftain insisted that without Buhari, the ruling party would
lose the 2019 general election.
He said the party won the last election because most of the politicians on
the platform of the APC rode on Buhari’s honesty to win the 2015 election,
noting that the party wouldn’t have won that election in the first place.