Corruption: Probe your election sponsors first, Fayose tells Buhari

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has
asked President Muhammadu Buhari to start his anti-
corruption fight by probing those that sponsored his
election to reveal their sources of income.
Fayose said, “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.
“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”.
Fayose, who spoke through his Special Assistant on
Public Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, on Wednesday took a swipe at the Federal
Government anti-corruption drive, 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.
“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?
“What the All Progressives Congress 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
and make noise about fighting corruption.”
He said President Buhari and his men should know
that Nigeria of today is different from that of 1983
and that unlike 1983, nothing could prevent them
from asking questions.
“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.”