Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has taken a swipe on the
Federal Government anti-corruption stance, describing it as mere
noise-making, witch-hunt and diversionary tactic to hoodwink the
public into overlooking the seeming failure of the government to
deliver on its electoral promises.
The governor said; “If President Mohammadu Buhari knows exactly where
the stolen funds are kept and who looted the funds, he does not need
all these public announcements. Rather, he should make public names of
the looters and bring back the purported stolen funds, location of
which he has identified. It is when he is able to bring back the money
that he should make announcements of recovered funds.”
Governor Fayose who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said; “You don’t announce
a process to the public. Rather, you announce the results because that
is what is of interest to the people. It is like you are announcing
that you know where armed robbers reside, won’t they change their
location?”
Speaking further, the governor said; “What the All Progressives
Congress (APC) spin-doctors and their collaborators in the Presidency
are doing is simple. It is such that when there is nothing to tell the
people as per the rising Boko Haram attacks, Dollar and other foreign
currencies exchange rates, petrol pump price and other seeming failed
promises of the APC federal government, they will accuse former
President Goodluck Jonathan and his men of corruption, insult Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and make noise about fighting corruption.
“President Buhari and his men should however know that Nigeria of
today is different from that of 1983 and the system under which they
are operating now is also different. Nigerians are watching and unlike
1983, nothing can prevent them from asking questions, which they are
already asking.”
While challenging President Buhari to start the anti-corruption fight
from his party, Governor Fayose said Nigerians know those who
sponsored President Buhari’s election and are waiting for the
President to reveal their sources of income.
“Some of those who sponsored the President’s election have not done
any other jobs apart from holding public offices. Yet, they provided
private jets and funds with which the President campaigned across the
length and breadth of Nigeria. He should let Nigerians know where they
got money to buy private jets and the several billions of naira spent
on his election.
“Mr President and his men should know that these planned efforts to
brand PDP as a party of corrupt people and supress the giant strides
of the Jonathan administration won’t work because Nigerians know that
APC is peopled with more corrupt people and the President must treat
the issue of corruption without looking at political parties.
“No one sits with corruption to fight corruption because as it is
today, President Buhari is sitting among corrupt people and he must
first extricate himself from the comity of corruption that he is
before his anti-corruption stance can be accorded respect.”