“APC is not a party of saints, neither Buhari the Pope’’, Former Ekiti State Governor and Minister of Solid Minerals, Fayemi Kayode, April 2015.
I almost lost my composure when a message recently dropped in my Facebook inbox sent in by an All Progressives Congress, APC, die hard apologists who happened to be my long time friend.
The message reads, “if I were Buhari………I will conspire with my brother Burutai and other guys, plot a coup, address the nation, suspend the constitution……dethrone PMB, install GMB…..Close down NASS (save billions), issue out decree 001 of 2016, set up tribunals in 36 states and Abuja.
Must we throw away the constitution, before we fight corruption? Which is greater, Buhari or the Nigerian constitution? It is just like asking, who is greater, “a pastor or the bible, an imam or the Quran?” myriads of thoughts ran through my mind.
Buhari’s war against corruption is a welcome development. It is no longer news that many people have entered the nation’s list of billionaires as a result of the reckless way the nation’s commonwealth was squandered in the past few years.
In as much as Buhari is pursuing the looters of the nation’s wealth to the admiration of many Nigerians, it will become suicidal for the president who under oath vowed to uphold the constitution, to start disparaging the law.
Wait! The one million dollar questions are these; under Buhari, where is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Why are the alleged culprits’ bank accounts being
frozen without a court order? Why has the EFCC turned to
painters overnight by defacing alleged looters houses with red inks and taking over their properties in reckless abandon?
When has the court which is the last hope of the common man become “a headache” to a democratically elected president? Too many questions begging for answers.
The most amazing is this; why is the case of the former Governor of Rivers State, and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, termed as innocent until proven guilty while the accused from the PDP are guilty until proven innocent? Why using different strokes for different folks.
The public outcry against Amaechi, alleged to have financed 80 percent of Buhari’s presidential campaign, using the
hard earned money of the impoverished people of Rivers state have been ignored by the DSS and the EFCC.
Like Femi Aribisala said; “If EFCC can probe Sule Lamido who was governor of Jigawa for eight years, what prevents them from probing Rotimi Amaechi who was governor of Rivers State also for eight years?
“Even if we were to accept the ridiculous APC treatise that there is a corruptible seed in the PDP which immediately disappears when a PDP member becomes an APC member, then it becomes necessary to probe Amaechi in the years he was still a PDP governor, before he became a new creation of the APC.
“The same would apply, for example, to Rabiu Kwankwaso, as a PDP governor of Kano before he switched to the APC.”
In all the arrests made so far, there is a pattern. The accused would first be subjected to media trial, before the EFCC would feast on the kill.
It was gathered that the anti-graft agency would first leak the issue to the media sympathetic to their cause, thereby whipping up sentiments against the accused before the EFCC would pick them up.
The searchlight is mainly on the campaign funds of the PDP and leaving that of the APC, which was alleged to have run into several billions of naira.
The sources of the APC campaign funds have not been investigated or brought to book, making Nigerians to believe that only PDP campaign funds were the ill-gotten money.
Former Chairman of DAAR Communication, Raymond Dokpesi, has however introduced another dimension to the $2.1 billion arms deal sage, describing it as a “hoax’ and a figment of imagination by the Buhari-led Federal Government.
From all indications, one would not but help to conclude that the fight against corruption by Buhari since inception is one-sided and not holistic, prompting people to ask if the anti-corruption war is actually a war against corruption or a revenge mission.
Buhari and the APC should know that there are also bad eggs in their camp, and they ought to be brought to book as well.
The fight against corruption must be sustained, but it should not be one-sided.
Post Nigeria
The message reads, “if I were Buhari………I will conspire with my brother Burutai and other guys, plot a coup, address the nation, suspend the constitution……dethrone PMB, install GMB…..Close down NASS (save billions), issue out decree 001 of 2016, set up tribunals in 36 states and Abuja.
“Within one year, corruption will be reduced by 70%! I will rule like that for 3 years, but by 2019, I will drop the kaaki and take my agbada again to run for second term. Before then, I would have removed anything SENATE from our laws, leaving only the house of Reps…..not more than 6 per state.’’After reading it, I nearly fainted.
It added: “By the time the Rule of Law will come back, it would have divorced his second wife, Corruption and stick with its first love, Justice.’’
Must we throw away the constitution, before we fight corruption? Which is greater, Buhari or the Nigerian constitution? It is just like asking, who is greater, “a pastor or the bible, an imam or the Quran?” myriads of thoughts ran through my mind.
Buhari’s war against corruption is a welcome development. It is no longer news that many people have entered the nation’s list of billionaires as a result of the reckless way the nation’s commonwealth was squandered in the past few years.
In as much as Buhari is pursuing the looters of the nation’s wealth to the admiration of many Nigerians, it will become suicidal for the president who under oath vowed to uphold the constitution, to start disparaging the law.
Wait! The one million dollar questions are these; under Buhari, where is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Why are the alleged culprits’ bank accounts being
frozen without a court order? Why has the EFCC turned to
painters overnight by defacing alleged looters houses with red inks and taking over their properties in reckless abandon?
When has the court which is the last hope of the common man become “a headache” to a democratically elected president? Too many questions begging for answers.
The most amazing is this; why is the case of the former Governor of Rivers State, and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, termed as innocent until proven guilty while the accused from the PDP are guilty until proven innocent? Why using different strokes for different folks.
The public outcry against Amaechi, alleged to have financed 80 percent of Buhari’s presidential campaign, using the
hard earned money of the impoverished people of Rivers state have been ignored by the DSS and the EFCC.
Like Femi Aribisala said; “If EFCC can probe Sule Lamido who was governor of Jigawa for eight years, what prevents them from probing Rotimi Amaechi who was governor of Rivers State also for eight years?
“Even if we were to accept the ridiculous APC treatise that there is a corruptible seed in the PDP which immediately disappears when a PDP member becomes an APC member, then it becomes necessary to probe Amaechi in the years he was still a PDP governor, before he became a new creation of the APC.
“The same would apply, for example, to Rabiu Kwankwaso, as a PDP governor of Kano before he switched to the APC.”
In all the arrests made so far, there is a pattern. The accused would first be subjected to media trial, before the EFCC would feast on the kill.
It was gathered that the anti-graft agency would first leak the issue to the media sympathetic to their cause, thereby whipping up sentiments against the accused before the EFCC would pick them up.
The searchlight is mainly on the campaign funds of the PDP and leaving that of the APC, which was alleged to have run into several billions of naira.
The sources of the APC campaign funds have not been investigated or brought to book, making Nigerians to believe that only PDP campaign funds were the ill-gotten money.
Former Chairman of DAAR Communication, Raymond Dokpesi, has however introduced another dimension to the $2.1 billion arms deal sage, describing it as a “hoax’ and a figment of imagination by the Buhari-led Federal Government.
From all indications, one would not but help to conclude that the fight against corruption by Buhari since inception is one-sided and not holistic, prompting people to ask if the anti-corruption war is actually a war against corruption or a revenge mission.
Buhari and the APC should know that there are also bad eggs in their camp, and they ought to be brought to book as well.
The fight against corruption must be sustained, but it should not be one-sided.
Post Nigeria
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