The All Progressives Congress says
President Goodluck Jonathan cannot fight corruption even if he is given
60 years to rule Nigeria.
The APC said this in a statement by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, while reacting to a
promise by Jonathan that he would institute anti-corruption programmes
if re-elected next month.
The APC said Jonathan’s inability to tackle corruption was not surprising as “a corrupt government can never fight corruption.”
It said it was surprising that Jonathan
was still initiating a plan to tackle corruption despite the presence of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as well as the Independent
Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.
The statement read, “Mr. President said
he wants to put in place the institutions to tackle corruption before
taking on the cankerworm that has almost destroyed the fabric of our
society. Pray, whatever happened to the EFCC and the ICPC? Were they not
institutions specifically created for the purpose of tackling
corruption, but which the Jonathan administration chose to castrate?
‘’There is no better way to say this:
President Jonathan lacks the political will to tackle corruption, and he
will not tackle it if he spends 60 years in office.”
The party said it was unfortunate that
despite spending about five years in office, the Jonathan administration
was just beginning to diagnose the problems of Nigeria.
It said, “A President who has spent the
last six years trying to diagnose the main problems facing the country
will apparently need another four years to plan how to tackle the
challenges. By then, all of us would have been buried under the rubble
of corruption and our country would have been decimated by insecurity.
“It is therefore time for Nigerians to
vote in a President who will hit the ground running, a President who
will tackle the problems of corruption and insecurity headlong, without
giving excuses for failure.”
On insecurity, the party said Jonathan
should have learnt from the APC presidential candidate, Maj.Gen
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) who was responsible for quelling the Maitatsine
insurgency in the early 1980s.
The APC said it was unfortunate that rather than devise means to tackle insecurity, Jonathan blamed everybody but his administration.
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