Buhari won’t resign over NDDC,NSITF, EFCC probes – FG
The Federal Government has said President Buhari will not resign from office over alleged cases of corruption in Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF), and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The Peoples
Democratic Party of Nigeria chairman, Uche Secondus, last week, called on
President Buhari to resign over the numerous corruption cases in many of the
government agencies as well as the high level of insecurity in many parts of
the country. Secondus said the ongoing
corruption investigations of the NDDC, MIC, NEDC, NSITF, EFCC, and other
government agencies, are pointers to the fact that the country under President
Buhari’s watch, is on ventilator gasping for breath. Read here.
Speaking at a press
conference in Abuja today Tuesday, July 28, the Minister of Information and
Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the call for President Buhari's resignation was
''infantile''.
Dismissing claims
that the anti-corruption war of the Buhari administration was waning, Lai
Mohammed dared anyone with a contrary opinion to try the government and see
what will happen.
“You are all aware,
Nigerians have recently been inundated with allegations of monumental
corruption in a number of government agencies, including the NDDC, NSITF, and
the anti-corruption agency, EFCC. Many, especially naysayers, have
misinterpreted these developments as a sign that the Administration’s fight
against corruption is waning.
In fact, the main
opposition PDP has latched on to the developments to call for the resignation
of Mr. President, a call that is nothing but infantile!
Let me state here
and now that the fight against corruption, a cardinal programme of this
Administration, is alive and well. President Muhammadu Buhari, the African
Union’s Anti-Corruption Champion, who also has an impeccable reputation
globally, remains the driver of the fight and no one, not the least the PDP
under whose watch Nigeria was looted dry, can taint his image or reverse the
gains of the fight.
Anyone who disagrees
that the anti-corruption fight is alive and well is free to dare us.” he
said
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