Under Buhari-APC Government, Corruption Has Become Official – Atiku

BY AMOS DUNIA, Abuja – The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that he was taken aback last week when the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, turned up at the Presidential Villa on Thursday, December 13, 2018, where he was received with pomp and pageantry.

Mr. Babachir Lawal attended the launch of the Together Nigeria organized by the Buhari Support Organization (BSO).

Atiku said it is a very sad day for Nigeria, when the President honours a man proven beyond all reasonable doubt to have soiled his hands with money meant for starving refugees.

He noted that these are the actions which feed the perceptions that has made Nigeria turn in its worst ever Corruption Perception Index rating by Transparency International where the nation went back 12 steps in 2018’s rankings, moving from 136 under President Jonathan to 148 today.

The PDP Presidential candidate said that based on the report of Transparency International, Nigeria is more corrupt today and therefore ask the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government to answer a few questions including:

*Who reinstated and double promoted Maina?

*Who owns the Ikoyi Apartment $42 million?

*What has happened to Aisha Buhari’s ADC who looted ₦2.5 billion?

*Why was the $25 billion NNPC contracts awarded without due process not investigated?

*Why haven’t those behind Buhari’s padded budget scandals been sacked or charged to court?

*When will Babachir be charged?

*How come fuel subsidy has doubled even when petrol price has doubled?

*Why did President Buhari lift the suspension of the corrupt NHIS boss, Usman Yusuf, before public pressure forced him to suspend him? Why has he not been charged?

*In May, Transparency International warned that Buhari had increased Security Vote by 600%, yet our soldiers have no weapons and are killed by terrorists. Where is the money going?

*In February Buhari withdrew $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account to ostensibly fund the war on terror, yet the Chief of Army Staff said after Metele that they have no weapons. Where did that money go?

Atiku urged the government to provide answers to these and other questions for Nigerians to know, adding that failure to answer them only proves that under Buhari, the All Progressive Congress Government is not just Corrupt, but corruption is its policy.