Abuja- Chief Richard Akinjide, the second
republic minister of Justice and
Attorney-General of the Federation
has taken a swipe at state
governors. In an interview on Galaxy television
yesterday, August 2, 2015, the Senior
Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), accused
state governors of corruption, calling
them “the biggest thieves.” Contrary to the cries of state
governors about inheriting empty
treasuries in their states, Akinjide
insisted that states are broke because
governors are stealing money. He said states are not able to pay
salaries because “they are stealing,”
stating categorically that “the biggest
thieves are the governors because
states get billions of naira allocation,
but in the end, the money is taken away,” The Sun reports.
According to Akinjide, most of those
who find themselves in government
lack honour, just as he also blamed
poverty for the corruption in govern­
ment. Chief Richard Akinjide Chief Richard Akinjide On leadership crisis in the country, the
former attorney general said: “We
have always had it. We had it in the
First Republic. That’s why there was
civil war, which was bloody.” He, however, played down claims that
the election which saw Bukola Saraki
emerge as Senate President, Ike
Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate
President and Yakubu Dogara as
Speaker House of Representatives was an act of treachery. “The sentiment on treachery is
nonsense,” he said.
Akinjide said there was nothing
wrong with the emergence of
Senators Bukola Saraki, Ike
Ekweremadu as Senate President and
Deputy Senate President respectively,
as they were duly elected. He, however, opposed the proposal
for part-time legislators as widely
rumoured, saying that the job at the
National Assembly should be full-time. Chief Richard Akinjide, is one of the
founding fathers of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and a former
Minister in the first and second
Republics.
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Tinumbu number 1

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Tinumbu number 1

Your father. Igbo bigot wettin concern u with tinubu sebi na west he dey. talk abt d ones in d SE. or u still they claim Lagos ni?

Mumu igbos no they mind their business. Apes

Onijagidijagan:

Your father. Igbo bigot wettin concern u with tinubu sebi na west he dey. talk abt d ones in d SE. or u still they claim Lagos ni?

Is tinumbu yoru father? Allow his children to fight for their father, go and fight for ur own use less father

He's got a point.

Nigerians has this habit of siding and supporting these thieves/politicians in government. And i think these support for or aganist our leaders cheers them more to play along and later they end up deceiving us the economy is not healthy.

But it is true. For governors, the state is their fiefdom. They do what they like with it. Abdusallam had a chance to radically reorganise our polity but opted for almost 1979 system. Very unwieldy, wasteful, protects governors in office, little accountability. But at least he didn't make himself dictator for life.