Corruption: Buhari Is Serial Noise Maker - Fayose

Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti state, has criticised the anti-corruption stance
of the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari, 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.

Speaking through Lere Olayinka, his special assistant on public communications and
new media, Fayose said that the president’s recent claim of knowing the location of
stolen funds are unwarranted if he indeed has a hang on how to recover them.
“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.
“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, he 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.”
He challenged Buhari to start the anti-corruption fight from his party, saying
that Nigerians know those who the president’s election and are waiting for him 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 suppress 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.”