Buhari should probe those who sponsored his election first - Governor Fayose

Ekiti Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose says President Muhammadu Buhari should start his anti-corruption war with those who sponsored his election first before witch-hunting the PDP and the immediate past government.


The 54-year-old Ekiti State Governor who was speaking via his twitter handle on Wednesday August 5, insisted that the President must revealed his sponsors' sources of incomes because they 'have not done any other jobs apart from holding public offices'.

''Buhari's anti-corruption mere noise-making, diversionary, witch-hunting,'' Fayose said. ''If President Buhari knows 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. It is like you are announcing that you know where armed robbers reside, won't they change their location?

''President Buhari and his men should know that Nigeria of today is different from that of 1983,'' he continued. '' Nigerians are watching and unlike 1983, nothing can prevent them from asking questions, which they are already asking. Nigerians know those who sponsored President Buhari’s election and are waiting for the President to reveal their sources of income. 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.

''He should know that the efforts to brand PDP as a party of corrupt people and supress the giant strides of GEJ won’t work,'' he added. ''Nigerians know that APC is peopled with more corrupt pple. President must treat issue of corruptn without looking at political parties. No one sits with corruption to fight corruption. As it is today, President Buhari is sitting among corrupt people. He must first extricate himself from the comity of corruption that he is before his anti-corruption stance can be accorded respect.''