Buhari Not Serious in Fight Against Corruption, Says Northern Elders’ Forum Chairman
President Muhammadu Buhari is not serious in the fight against corruption in the country, the Acting Chairman, Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has said.
Speaking with newsmen in Kaduna Tuesday on the occasion of public lecture on education, Abdullahi said as far as he is concerned the courts and prisons in the country would have been filled up if the President was serious committed to the fight against corruption.
He said that many corrupt politicians are going about free because they were all forgiven by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He cited how the sins of former Gombe governor, Senator Danjuma Goje and others were forgiven just like that.
He said, “We have now seen corruption on a massive scale and nobody is doing anything about it.
“The president said he is fighting corruption, but I don’t believe him. If he is fighting corruption, our courts and prisons should be full by now. This is because corruption is everywhere.
“You don’t just pick one case and make it a universal example of fighting corruption. We have just seen the conviction of Orji Uzor Kalu and it is becoming something that the world should know; when there are so many people with 70 something billion (naira) with them.
“Those people should be in the same prison with Uzor Kalu. In any case, if you want to say that Uzor Kalu had committed an offence, but here is a national chairman of a party, the president’s party, who pronounces that don’t worry how much you have stolen somewhere else, as long as you come and say you are a member of APC, you are forgiven.
“A good example of that is former governor Danjuma Goje. It was the Attorney General of the Federation himself that went to court to say they were withdrawing the case from the court.
“His (Goje’s) offences are not different from Orji Uzor Kalu’s and many others that were reported.
“The media is equally guilty in this direction. You journalists are part of the crises that we have because you are not addressing these issues as hard, objectively and fairly as you should.”
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