President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, obtained his assets declaration
form from the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), saying his style may have
earned him more enemies who might want to go after him after 2023.
Buhari urged the CCB to keep his form safe because people who have
tested the bitter pill of his anti-corruption war will want to get back
at him by 2023 after his second term in office ends.
The President, Vice-President Osinbajo, Governors and other public
officers whose tenure ends on May 29 are expected to submit their
end-of-tenure asset declaration forms on May 28, 2019, according to the
Laws.
Buhari said “I am very pleased that you are here, I assure you I will
quickly fill this form and dispatched it back to you so that at the end
of 2023, I believe there are a lot of people that will like to get back
at me. So please, make sure you keep it safely because there are people
who believed they shouldn’t be questioned which they are being
questioned and some of them are already in trouble. I expect them to
fight back and this is one of the instruments. So I hope you will keep
it when I finished. Thank you very much indeed.”
Commending the CCB for accepting to serve said: “I am very pleased, I
think I am meeting you for the first time since your appointment. I have
never met you before. I thank you for accepting to be in this very
important institution and I thank you very much for serving me my forms
which I must fill constitutionally before my second term of office.
“I think we cannot over emphasize the importance of your office because
Nigerians are notorious for cutting short and not giving account of
their public responsibilities and we are trying to impress it on our
nation and the world that this administration is based on
accountability.
“It is only institutions like yours that will bail us out from the
efforts that we have been making to make sure that people in public
offices do not abuse that public office and that those who come in and
those that are leaving in certain positions make sure that they hold the
integrity of the office and of the country generally in high esteem.”
The Chairman of the CCB, Muhammad Isah, accompanied by Murtala Kankia,
Dr. Emmanuel Attah and other board members made the presentation at the
State House, Abuja on Monday.