Less than three years in office, the Muhammadu Buhari All Progressives Congress-led administration is already drowning in a sea of corruption scandals. The many “…GATES” of this government threaten to sweep it off its feet – and they keep growing by the day! Its spin doctors are getting exasperated and confused and are fast running out of ideas.
Unfortunately, rather than take the bull by the horn, they are busy drawing the wool over our eyes, papering over the cracks, and sweeping humongous corruption cases under carpets which are already bursting at the seams. This was exactly the same perilous path travelled by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan when the Stella Oduahs (of the bullet proof car saga); Deziani Allison-Madueke (who spent billions of public funds on chartered flight), Abba Moro (who conducted a murderous Immigrations job interview) and many others all got away with blue murder, as it were. There were sacred cows in the Jonathan administration that did as they pleased and got away unscathed. Nigerians thought that was not good enough; voted Jonathan out of office; and installed Buhari, a one-time military dictator who had promised to fight corruption. Borrowing a leaf from his antecedents, Nigerians believed him. In fact, the masses deified and elevated him to the pedestal of a demigod, hence the chant “Sai Baba”
But, alas! Two years down the road, Buhari has been demystified. The corruption scandals oozing out of his government today rival those under Jonathan. Buhari already has his own Oduahs, Dezianis, and Moros – and many more many times over! Yet, this is an administration that rode into power on the crest of an anti-corruption mantra and which continues to parrot its commitment to same. While it is quick to arrest and try opposition figures and party contrarians accused of corruption, it has been lethargic, clay-footed, hypocritical, double-faced, and dubious in applying the same medicine to its own party members and other loyalists. Senator Shehu Sani of the same APC best described this unsavoury state of events with his deodorant (for Buhari loyalists) and insecticides (for Buhari enemies) analogy.
The list of the corruption scandals encircling this administration is mind-boggling. Virtually every powerful person in this government has been fingered and this is not just (political) mud-slinging by opponents but real and factual allegations made by people who, ordinarily, should be the ones defending and protecting this government. A few examples: The allegation, twice made, that the EFCC boss is not fit for office, and which has twice denied him Senate confirmation, was made by the State Security services (DSS); the same EFCC has now blown the lid on Mainagate, which has engulfed the same DSS, the Federal Attorney-General and Minister of Justice; Minister of the Interior, Federal Civil Service Commission; Head of Service of the Federation; and even President Buhari himself if leaked photographs and memos on this corruption scandal are anything to go by. Friendly fires, you may say! Aisha Buhari, the president’s wife, was the first to blow the whistle on the corruption walloping the Presidential Initiative on the North-East (PINE) before the grass-cutting scandal that just consumed SGF Babachir Lawal broke. A daughter of the president, Zahra, supported by the same First Lady, also recently blew the whistle on the Aso Rock clinic situated within the State House under Buhari’s very nose, which they alleged has drawn billions of Naira in budgetary allocations since Buhari came into office with nothing to show for it.
We should not forget that both Hon. Jubril of the padded budget fame, who blew the whistle on Speaker Yakubu Dogara and Senator Misau, who blew the whistle on the Inspector-General of Police, are both from the ruling APC. In making his defence, the IGP reportedly released damning information that the First Lady demanded and got two SUVs from him. Et tu Aisha? This is not to talk of the Dubai properties’ allegation concerning the Army chief and Minister of the Interior as well as the bribery allegation said to connect a GSM company with the Chief of Staff. If we say the odious revelations from Rivers and Ekiti states concerning two ex-governors now serving Ministers are political because an opposition party now controls the two states, how about that from Lagos where both former and sitting governor belong in the same ruling party? What do we make of the “ownerless” monies that the EFCC said it has picked up all over the country?
The sack of SGF Lawal and the NIA DG is too little, too late. It is a ruse if, truly, the new SGF, Boss Mustapha, is Lawal’s first cousin. That must be one aspect of the “soft landing” that was long rumoured to be in the offing for the disgraced SGF. Another is that he walks about freely, not invited or charged by the EFCC even though a panel constituted by the president himself and headed by the VP who was ably assisted by two top-ranking Ministers found him guilty. What anti-corruption war are we still talking about? That is not fair to Olisa Metuh, Femi Fani-Kayode, Bala Mohammed and others standing trial for corruption. How many of Lawal’s properties have they seized as they have done Patience Jonathan’s? The sack of Lawal and the NIA DG is a subterfuge and a scantily-concealed attempt to divert our attention from the much more serious Maina-gate and the SUV allegations threatening to consume the President and First Lady respectively.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones....
Shakespeare!!!
The Evil done to man by another man,must be redressed.If not by man,certain by God.For the victory of evil over good is temporary...APC is a political party,whose foundation is falsehood,and anything that have it origin as falsehood will die at the appointed time...APC,and Buhari must pay through their nose...!!!!

so there is 2 more years of buhari and his BMC crew.

foock.

anyway i know that if APC impose him on us as their candidate, a man who spent 3 months on medical leave, too weak to go to work and is working from home, they will definitely lose 2019 election,

What makes this situation hopeless is that PDP aint a good option either. its the very same people, all they did is move parties.

Lets give another party a chance, a fresh face and not the recycled politicians we have today

Buhari is a curse to Nigeria

They always make excuses for everything telling us how Buhari is not aware of anything related to missteps in his administration that I sometimes wonder if Buhari is even aware of his own existence.

NNPCgate;
foreign medical tripgate;
recruitment of their kids into juicy parastatalsgate;
IDP camp bombinggate;
CBN forexgate;
the gates are just too much...

ivandragon:
NNPCgate;
foreign medical tripgate;
recruitment of their kids into juicy parastatalsgate;
IDP camp bombinggate;
CBN forexgate;
the gates are just too much...

Even Buhari is a gate himself