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Presidency, Kukah clash over Buhari’s undeclared assets

By Saxone Akhaine ( Kaduna) and Sodiq Omolaoye (Abuja)

Bishop accuses the president of clannishness, divisiveness
• Says no sane citizen ready to die for rudderless Nigeria
• I escaped assassination attempts as EFCC chair, says Waziri


The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Revd. Matthew Hassan Kukah, and the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, yesterday traded words over the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to declare his assets publicly.

It all happened at the public presentation and launch of the book Farida Waziri: One Step Ahead–Life as a Spy, Detective, and Anti-Graft Czar written by a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri.


Revd. Fr. Patrick Alumuku of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, who represented Kukah as the guest lecturer, spoke on the topic: “Is corruption A Biological Necessity or A political Invention?”

The Catholic bishop had, while concluding his speech, queried: “On a final note, let me ask two or three questions that I have heard being asked. First, is it in the law that the chairman of EFCC must be from the police force and a Muslim from Northern Nigeria? Two, people have asked, how is it that the president used Justice Onnoghen’s asset declaration form to prove his corruption and proceeded to sack him, yet the president himself has not publicly declared his own assets as he promised during his campaigns? Thirdly, why has Mr. Magu not been confirmed as EFCC chairman and what is the state of the trial of those who attempted to kill him in December 2017?”

In his reaction, Adesina said Buhari never promised to declare his assets publicly, adding that the president had not broken any law by not doing so.


The presidential spokesman, therefore, challenged Kukah to produce evidence of where the president promised to publicly declare his assets if elected.

He stated: “I remember I was appointed on May 31, 2015, and when I resumed work on June 1 2015, in a private meeting with the president, one of the first questions I asked him was: this promise about the public declaration of assets, when are you doing it?

“And then he asked me: can you please show me where that promise was ever made? And behold, we searched everywhere, there was no place where the president ever said he would do a public declaration and he asked me what the law required. And he said: ‘The law requires you to declare your assets and that is what I will do.’ Yet, since that year, they keep repeating that he promised a public declaration.

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“Sir, can you tell Bishop Kukah that I challenge him to produce that promise by the president because the president stands by it till tomorrow that he never promised a public declaration.

“In 2015, he made his assets public, in 2019, he had declared, he has chosen not to go public, he has not broken any law. So, please let’s not continue to repeat what is untrue.”

Earlier, Mrs. Waziri said she escaped several assassination attempts as the head of the country’s anti-graft agency.

She explained that she wrote the book due to fabrications from malicious quarters that had created a distorted perception of her persona.

“Along the way, there were assassination attempts, face-offs with cranks and officials in foreign lands, thrust and parry with criminals and personal tragedies of losing loved ones, particularly husband and daughter, within one year for which my predecessors did not express their condolence.

“It is the story of a young girl’s journey through life, from being a Catholic girl to a Muslim; from being born of a Tiv family in Benue State to becoming a matriarch in Tangale family from Gombe; from a police officer who was the best recruit in 1967 to becoming an assistant inspector general of police, who also became a lawyer”, she said.

Meanwhile, following the unabated security challenges in the nation, Kukah has said that there is no sane Nigerian ready to die for the country.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/presidency-kukah-clash-over-buharis-undeclared-assets/

Nigeria seems to getting hotter by the day.

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If I were the president, and to show that I'm not corrupt like those I accuse and hound, I'll publicly declare my assests even though no law requires me to do so.

Would he be breaking any law of he chose to declare it publicly?

LibertyRep:
If I were the president, and to show that I'm not corrupt like those I accuse and hound, I'll publicly declare my assests even though no law requires me to do so.

Would he be breaking any law of he chose to declare it publicly?

Buahri doesn't have enough honor to do that. He doesn't even need to be honorable. All he needs to do is to throw a morsel of eba at and his team of professional liars and they will make ignobility look like nobility

content208:
Buahri doesn't have enough honor to do that. He doesn't even need to be honorable. All he needs to do is to throw a morsel of eba at and his team of professional liars and they will make ignobility look like nobility

Looking at over 42 posts you have made today, we saw that you mention our moniker in each and every posts!

Wait, is this the way you see us in your nightmare every night?
Better take it easy with your self kiddo,
Non of us @[color=#006600][/color] even know you exist in life! (Bitter truth!)
We have more important things to attend to than having time for any pessimistic souls here.

Keep supporting the frauds, looters and thieves you have been supporting and leave us with our darling Daddy and stop giving yourself avoidable migraine.

@topic,

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari declares assets

BBC.com : Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar assess Mr Buhari's time in office

Nigeria's leader Muhammadu Buhari has declared he has $150,000 (£100,000) in his personal account, in a move aimed at promoting transparency.

The amount showed the ex-military ruler and minister of petroleum had been living a "Spartan lifestyle", his spokesman Garba Shehu said.

The BBC's Will Ross says the assets are loose change for Nigerian politicians but a fortune for most of the country.

Mr Buhari is the first opposition candidate to win a national election.

Use the link below and other threads on Nairaland for more information..

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34150508

Nice Day!

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Looking at over 42 posts you have made today, we saw that you mention our moniker in each and everyone!

Wait, is this the way you see us in your nightmare every night?
Better take it easy with your self kiddo,
Non of us @[color=#006600][/color] even know you exist in life! (Bitter truth!)
We have more important things to attend to than having time for any pessimistic souls here.

Keep supporting the frauds, looters and thieves you have been supporting and leave us with our darling Daddy and stop giving yourself avoidable migraine.

@topic,

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari declares assets

Media captionThe BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar assess Mr Buhari's time in office

Nigeria's leader Muhammadu Buhari has declared he has $150,000 (£100,000) in his personal account, in a move aimed at promoting transparency.

The amount showed the ex-military ruler and minister of petroleum had been living a "Spartan lifestyle", his spokesman Garba Shehu said.

The BBC's Will Ross says the assets are loose change for Nigerian politicians but a fortune for most of the country.

Mr Buhari is the first opposition candidate to win a national election.

Use the link below and other threads on Nairaland for more information..

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34150508

Nice Day![/s][/quote]

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Looking at over 42 posts you have made today, we saw that you mention our moniker in each and everyone!

I've always known that you are jobless. So, you go about counting number of post? The amount they pay you to play the fool for buahri must be plenty.

Keep supporting the frauds, looters and thieves you have been supporting and leave us with our darling Daddy and stop giving yourself avoidable migraine.

May God handle your life and that of your entire family the same way buahri handles nigeria's security. You shouldn't find it difficult to say amen to that prayer.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari declares assets

Media captionThe BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar assess Mr Buhari's time in office

Nigeria's leader Muhammadu Buhari has declared he has $150,000 (£100,000) in his personal account, in a move aimed at promoting transparency.

The amount showed the ex-military ruler and minister of petroleum had been living a "Spartan lifestyle", his spokesman Garba Shehu said.

The BBC's Will Ross says the assets are loose change for Nigerian politicians but a fortune for most of the country.

Kindly show me the document of public asset declaration made by Buhari if you are not just a political jobber bent on making black look like white. Even his spokesman declared that buahri insisted he wouldn't be making his asset public. That's a sign he is hiding something and a sign that you are just a Shameless political jobber.

Mr Buhari is the first opposition candidate to win a national election.

Use the link below and other threads on Nairaland for more information..

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34150508

Major General Muhammadu Buhari won the election because of his series of promises. Now, Mr Shameless hypocritical political jobber, can you mention just three of the electoral promises fulfilled by buahri in over 5 years as president? I mean just three. I'm sure you will never provide an answer but you will run away as usual. That's what failed people do; they scurry away into their holes when faced with the truth.

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LibertyRep:
If I were the president, and to show that I'm not corrupt like those I accuse and hound, I'll publicly declare my assests even though no law requires me to do so.

Would he be breaking any law of he chose to declare it publicly?

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He has not to prove to anybody, if you feel he has acquired assets that he shouldn't provide evidence.

So we now have lying bishops and looting pastors, wandaful.

Interesting

Stalwert:
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He has not to prove to anybody, if you feel he has acquired assets that he shouldn't provide evidence.

How am I supposed to know he has acquired assets he ordinarily shouldn't when I have no knowledge of his declared assets and he has not made it public.

I hope you also know that those that invoked the FOI act to compel the CCB to have access to his declared assets met a wall ad they were referred back to the president.

Will it not be a plus for his acclaimed integrity if openly declare his assets without being dragged to do so ?