Presidency has again stated that the administration of president Mohammadu Buhari will not shelve the probing of the past government of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the face of monumental fraud and corruption.

It however revealed that no one is under probe at the moment, saying that the government is only taking briefings and gathering evidences to prosecute corrupt officials of the past government.

The presidency’s reiteration followed an accusation of selective probe by a prominent Northern leader, Tanko Yakassai.

Speaking exclusively to Vanguard on Sunday in reaction to the accusation, the Senior Special Adviser to president Buhari on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said that there are sensitive matters arising from briefings and officials engagements which the president cannot overlook.

[b]Shehu described as laughable the allegation that Buhari has excluded other former presidents like chief Olusegun Obasanjo due to his affinity with him.

“Let me say that officially, nobody is under probe even Dr. Jonathan. People should not make mistakes about the fact that what is going on are routine investigations. These are matters that the president has found on the table.

“So, there is nothing like a probe. If Jonathan will be probed, you would have heard of, may be, an administrative panel of enquiry or Judicial Panel of Enquiry. But it hasn’t come to that. These are matters of routine engagements of due process of law and order.

“I am talking about probe now. As I said, President Buhari in his campaign said this government is not going to probe into the past. We are not probing but as a responsible government, you cannot bring to the table matters such as we are dealing with and then, the president will wave them off.

“The office of the president may be powerful but it is controlled, regulated by due process and the constitution of the country. The president cannot wave away the matters that are arising from either handing over or the routine briefings that he is into.

“How can anybody say he was part of the Obasanjo military regime. That’s why he’s not probing them?
Speaking further, the presidential spokesman queried why the allied of former president Jonathan would wait until now to Champoin the cause of probing past government before Jonathan.
He stated that it was Jonathan’s responsibility to probe the governments of Obasanjo and Umoru Musa Yar’Adua.

“Let me tell you, if Obsanjo and Yar”Adua and all of the past governments before Jonathan needed to have been probed, why did Mr. Jonathan shy away from his responsibility? Why didn’t he probe him why he was in office? Why didn’t Mr. Tanko Yakkassai ask Jonathan to probe Yar’Adua, Babangida, Obasanjo? Why do they have to wait for Buhari to come to do what he should have done then?

“It is common sense. So, if he didn’t probe them, why should his people ask some other person to come and probe them? If they felt it was desirable, as a party, PDP, if it was desirable to probe the past administration, why didn’t they do it themselves? Why do they have to wait for President Buhari to come?

“No, this is not a government of probes. It is a government of due process and law and order. President Buhari is dealing with the matters he has found on the table and he has no power under the constitution to wave them. If someobody had stolen Nigeria’s one billion dollars of oil, President Buhari is not authorized to wave it off under the law. He should ask questions. There is no probe going on now. People who are creating the spectre of probes in the country just want to create unnecessary fear”, he said.[/b]

Asked to say assuredly when the probes would actually begin, Shehu said it was the prerogative of President Buhari to say.

“I don’t know if there will be probe eventually. The president will determine that. I am not permitted to say that now. But as it is now, matters are rising from the briefings the president is getting, from handing over, matters he met on the table. The president has the right to ask questions and that is what he is doing”, he said.

On the issue of running a unilateral government having not appointed Ministers, Shehu said that the allegation was unfounded.

According to him, the government is running well and it’s Ministries and Agencies were competently manned by the Permanent Secretaries.
Shehu however assured that president Buhari would form his cabinet soon.

“It is not correct. The constitution is very clear about the powers of the State. Legislatives powers are there under the parliament. The President has not interfered with the powers of the parliament even when the clamoir for him was there to save the parliament from the crisis of leadership, he stayed out of it.

“The power of the Judiciary resides in that arm of government. President Buhari is not interfering and the Executive powers of the government are there and the Executive Arm of government is the first arm which he had under him, there is no vacancy now as we speak now. All the Ministries of the government are been competently run under the supervision of the Permanent Secretaries.

“They consult the President and the President consults them. He consults the party and the party consults him. So, if anybody is not in the room when these matters are being discussed, don’t go out there telling people that there is no consultation going on. You cannot be an adviser to PDP president and also be an Adviser to the APC government at the same time.

“I hope so. He didn’t say September 1 though. The president will appoint Ministers. There is no question about that. I don’t know. The president will decide when he will appoint his Ministers. If it is auspicious for him to appoint them in September, he will”, he said.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/presidency-queries-why-yakasaai-others-did-not-tell-jonathan-to-probe-ibb-obasanjo-yaradua/

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FP well na Godwin!! @topic.. Well Dats gej fault he should have done it.. But now dat bubu is there he should fufil all righteousness and probe dem all if not come d time anoda person is there, even if he is dead(bubu) his dead body will be resurrected and probed!! Lobatan

Thank you, Garba!
Gracias!
Obregado!

Very senseless wailers. In fact, probing jonathans' govt alone is too time and resources consuming, let alone going deeper than that. And mayb they want Buhari to spend his 4yrs probing so that after his tenure elapses, they ll say he spent his 4yrs probing.

..And the senseless wailers be like "Buhari should probe Nnamdi Azikiwe too" #AwonWerey

He will never agri to probe dem...thief no dey catch thief

midolian:

“It is common sense. So, if he didn’t probe them, why should his people ask some other person to come and probe them? If they felt it was desirable, as a party, PDP, if it was desirable to probe the past administration, why didn’t they do it themselves? Why do they have to wait for President Buhari to come?
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Jonathan didn't acquire the clueless & retardeen moniker for Fun, he got them because it was widely known that he didn't even understand the kind of Job he had before him & also didn't care to learn on the job.

With the key word being responsibility, that is a tall order for the wailers hero, cos no responsible govt blames corruption on access, plunders resources to prosecute an election that he has lost even before the d day & pits tribes /regions against each other..

Same thing on my mind. Why do they have to wait for Buhari to come in b4 they talk of probing obasanjo, Yaradua and IBB? Why didn't the previous administrations probe the administrations b4 them?

Lalasticlala

their own problem

well since GEJ was a chief looter he couldn't have probed OBJ..... But the fact that the SSA is saying there might be no probing is getting me worried... If he doesn't probe GEJ how are we suppose to recover the stolen funds.... Or is PMB turning to the same page GEJ turned to i.e. Turning a blind eye to looters.... In another news...

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Reason why naija will never progress,biased monkeys backing up corrupt bast@rds

Hmmm

I wonder o. Now wailers want Buhari to do what's primarily the duty of Jonathan.

Well
its none of my business

probing is the new cool

[b]They've tried and tried to find a way to hook anything on GEJ, it all points back to Obasanjo and their allies. All these maneuvering nor be today e start. APC should be truthful and admit they have tried but can not pin anything on GEJ.

They have tried to attack Okonja Iweala but still yet can not pin anything on her. They have tried with Allison Madueke still yet nothing. That's the plain truth. The only abnormalities they discovered led directly to Obasanjo and some Northern oligarchs.

If all the propaganda we have been hearing about monies missing, unremitted, etc was to be true then action would have been taken. For now they can keep deceiving their slaves with half truths and rumours. Remember Oshiomole talk e own say America give them list, well the Americans have denied it . And we are waiting to stone Oshiomole and Amaechi if they do not walk the talk.

They must probe oooo, we want to see the end of it. When Buhari's body language jails all the corrupt people in Nigeria wake me up. Propaganda can only get you as far to your destruction![/b]

It was the responsibility of former President Jonathan to probe OBJ. It was the lot of OBJ to probe Abdusalam.

Why didnt President Jonathan probe OBJ? He actually said many times that he was going to!

It is the lot of PMB to check what transpired with the last administration.

It would be the lot of PMB's successor to probe PMB!

That's the way it is.

PDP & Failure is like Bread and Butter.
Where is Barcanista and Mogidi ga to come and analyse how it is PMB's responsibility to probe probe former leaders since Independence.




Meanwhile, Baba continue doing what is best for the Country. Even if it require using GEJ and PEG for a sacrifice, the Nation is solidly behind you.

Aren't they even ashamed to be asking Buhari to do what they failed to do themselves?

I hate PDP with passion.

seems the plan by the presidency for Querying Why Yakasaai, Others Did Not Tell GEJ To Probe IBB, OBJ is dodging tactics and fear to probe them .

Wailers

Yakassai and his like are jokers. They want Wike to probe Amaechi only, leaving Omehia, Odili and others while Buhari should start his probe from the time of Tafawa-Balewa, abi Lord Lugarad.

Hmmm..

And this made FP
This government has a penchant for repetition


Probe,Panel,Due Processes and Scam!

Dis regime can do d needful

This people sabi answer critics sha. Chai, see as them finish pdp in just one move. Them want make PMB leave governance begin probe administration wey don comot for office for 8 years now, so that he no go get attention for government wey comot 3 months ago. Na lie una dey lie, PMB is coming for you rogues.

Rev father Kukah has talked sense into their heads.But come oo! So the september date is not september date again?