Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described
President Muhammadu Buhari’s sack of the suspended Secretary to the Government
of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and the Director General, National
Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke as face-saving and an afterthought.
Fayose, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr
Idowu Adelusi, noted that: “The President only acted because of the outcry of
Nigerians, especially over the fraudulent reinstatement of the former Chairman
of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdullahi Maina.”
The governor, who said the indicted and sacked SGF, NIA
Director General and others still in Buhari’s government should be handed over
to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for thorough
investigation and prosecution.
“Enough of using probe panels to shield people accused of
corruption in Buhari’s government. Rather, they should be arrested, detained
and prosecuted by the EFCC as being done to others perceived as the President
enemies,” Fayose said.
He congratulated Nigerians whose resistance force the
President to act, saying; “Once again, Nigerians have proved that the power of
the president is not greater than that the people who elected him.”
Reacting to the President’s sack of Lawal and Oke through
his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
Governor Fayose said; “What Nigerians expected from a President who rode to
power on the basis of integrity is a total cleansing of his government, not
setting up panel to investigate corruption allegations involving his men and
reluctantly sacking a few of them because of public outcry.”
Maintaining that President Buhari was aiding and abetting
corruption, the governor said; “As far as I am concerned, sacking the SGF and
NIA Director General is just an afterthought and it is not enough. Let them be
handed over to the EFCC for prosecution just like other Nigerians that they
have accused of corruption.
“Apart from prosecuting the sacked officials, Nigerians are
interested in the full details of the report on the $43 million discovered in
an apartment at Osbourne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos. The report should be made
public.
“They also want to know what happened to the Minister of
State for Petroleum Resources Ibe Kachikwu’s allegation of award of $25 billion
contracts without following due process against the Group Managing Director
(GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); Dr. Maikanti Baru.
“Nigerians are interested in the report of the panel that
looked into the Department of State Service (DSS) report that indicted Acting
Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu of corruption. They want to know why the former
Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, who was accused of corruption by the Senate,
removed from office unceremoniously and declared wanted is now the Commissioner
of Police in charge of the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Ikoyi, Lagos.
“Also, the people are interested in the rationale behind the
appointment of Ahmed Gambo Saleh; the Supreme Court Registrar who was indicted
and put on trial for alleged over N2 billion fraud as the Secretary of the
National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Corruption and Financial Crime Cases
Trial Monitoring Committee.
“Most importantly,
Nigerians are not carried away by the sack of Babachir Lawal and Oke. Rather,
they want to know what President Buhari has done to those behind the fraudulent
reinstatement of Maina since report on the reinstatement was submitted last
week Tuesday as directed by the President.
“Not until President Buhari fumigates his own bedroom and
rid it of corruption, it will remain in the mindset of the people that
President Buhari is aiding and abetting corruption, and only acts when it
becomes difficult for him to close his ears to the outcry of Nigerians.”
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