Press
Release
NNPC’s 25billion Dollars
Scandal And The Hypocrisy Of Buhari’s Anti-Corruption War
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| *President Buhari |
The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wishes to express our shock at the loud silence
of President Muhammadu Buhari on the humongous corruption scandal and other
illegalities currently being exposed at the nation’s cash cow, the NNPC in
which two of his henchmen, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu
and the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru are the dramatis
personae.
1. As a political party, we expect that the President, who
prides himself as an indefatigable corruption fighter, would for once try to
live above board, by genuinely allowing one of his own, accused of corruption,
get properly investigated and prosecuted as a show of his impartiality in the
war against corruption.
2. He should do this to correct the open impression
Nigerians have about his so called anti-corruption war; that it’s just a
tool of persecution of perceived enemies.
3. We view the
allegations levelled against Baru by Kachikwu as too grave to be swept under
the carpet and we insist that the NNPC GMD must be treated like an accused who
should not have the opportunity to influence investigation into his alleged
misdeeds.
