₦airaland Forum

TippyTop:
Buhari proved in the 80s how tribalistic he was after his coup de tat when he went to town arresting mostly southerners.
As PTF chairman he exhibited same trait.

We warned you people but you didn't listen.

Desyner:
It is now clear APC can't justify any of its actions without dragging PDP into it.
Even if PDP truly have vested interest in Maina, being the 'anti-corruption' party APC is, what is APC suppose to do ? Reinstate and protect him ?
Think and stop acting all zombie.

beautyoftheLord:
Hmmmmm! Even his party people don dey turn against him.

Samuel Awoyinfa, Femi Makinde, Success Nwogu, Simon Utebor, Alexander Okere, Peter Dada, Hindi Livinus, Gibson Achonu, Clement Nnachi and Olaide Oyelude

Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress in some states of the federation have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir Lawal, the suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, and the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, to save his anti-graft war.

In separate interviews with Saturday PUNCH, the chieftains made the calls against the backdrop of several probe reports submitted to the Presidency, which they said appeared to have indicted the affected top government officials of corrupt practices.

The APC chieftains warned that the President’s inaction on the reports of the panels that investigated the trio could erode his integrity, bring down his government and kill his anti-corruption campaign.



An APC chieftain in Adamawa State, Mark Wosi, who called for the sacking of the indicted government officials, said from all indications, Buhari was stalling on the issues because the men involved were his loyalists.

Wosi said, “You can’t keep telling us you are fighting corruption while there are corruption allegations against people around you and yet you can’t do anything about it. This only means you are the father of corruption. The integrity of President Muhammadu Buhari is now in doubt with all these fraud cases under his nose.”

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had on Wednesday, August 23, 2017, submitted to the Presidency the report of the committee that investigated allegations of corruption against Lawal and Oke.

Similarly, a committee set up by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, had discovered that frauds to the tune of N919m allegedly took place under Yusuf, who had spent less than a year at the NHIS. The report was then sent to the President on September 4.

While Oke was supposed to have proceeded on pre-retirement leave from August as his tenure ends in November, there has been no official decision by Buhari on allegations against the NIA boss.

In view of this, the Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on Justice, Mr. Razaq Atunwa, called on the President to sack and prosecute the affected government officials.

Atunwa, who is representing Asa/Ilorin West Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, said Buhari’s delay in taking action was portraying his government in bad light, adding that the reports on the top government functionaries must not be swept under the carpet.

He said, “If someone has committed a financial crime or fraud, he must not only be dismissed from office but be made to face the music. It is for the court to decide if the person is guilty of that offence or not.”

An APC chieftain in Ogun State, Chief Bode Mustapha, said if the report of the findings indicted the SGF, he would expect the President to immediately act on it.

He said, “We don’t need this kind of suspense now. It is capable of bringing President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration into disrepute.

“He (Buhari) is allowing the Peoples Democratic Party to have a field day in accusing the APC of shielding corrupt people, whether rightly or wrongly. This is a big shame.”

Mustapha said beyond pronouncements, there was a need to strengthen the anti-corruption institutions.

“It is high time the President took the bull by horns. Since he has made pronouncements in the case of the Abdulrasheed Maina (a former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform) by sacking him, he should also do the same thing on Lawal, Yusuf and others.”

The factional Chairman of the APC in Ebonyi State, Mr. Ben Nwaobasi, said sacking the affected government officials would lend credence to the anti-graft campaign of the Federal Government.

He said, “Nobody should be condoned; any person who runs afoul of the law and indulges in corrupt practices should be made to face the full weight of the law. All those who have a hand in any corrupt practice should be punished.”

An APC leader in Osun State, Mr. Amitolu Shitu, also asked the President to sack Lawal and Yusuf over the allegations of corruption levelled against them.

Shitu, who is also the coordinator of DeRaufs (a pro-Governor Rauf Aregbesola group), said the anti-corruption war of this administration had failed and that the President had failed many Nigerians, who voted for him to rid the nation of corruption.

Shitu said, “President Muhammadu Buhari was voted in because of his stance on corruption. He was seen as a man of integrity and a leader, who would fight corruption, which has prevented Nigeria and Nigerians from developing.

“Unfortunately, he has failed in his anti-corruption war. He failed, not because he is stealing money, but because he allowed corrupt politicians around him to hijack governance from him and run the affairs of the nation with impunity.

“It is not enough for the President to suspend the SGF and the NHIS boss, I believe he should sack them. And not only these two officials, there are others who were accused of corruption. Nothing has been done against them.

“Buhari’s campaign against corruption has failed and the rate of corruption now is so alarming.”

He, however, stated that the President could renew the hope of Nigerians in him by sacking and prosecuting any of his close aides and allies accused of corruption.

In like manner, a chieftain of Buhari’s party in Ondo State, who spoke with our correspondent on condition of anonymity for fear of being accused of an anti-party misdemeanour, condemned the President’s silence on the various allegations of fraud against some government officials.

The party chieftain alleged that a cabal in the Presidency had become uncontrollable by Buhari, saying most of the suspected fraud cases were, in one way or another, connected to some members of the cabal, “making it impossible for the President to act on the cases.”

He said, “I think the silence of Mr. President on those issues is deliberate because it involves some of his boys. But as a matter of fact, these matters are rubbishing our party. How could the President be silent on fraud cases in his government when we had told Nigerians that we wanted to fight corruption?

“The problem of Mr. President is that he is not in charge; it is the cabal that is controlling him and any matter that involves members of the cabal or their friends may not see the light of the day.

“If the President still wants Nigerians to respect him and his administration, he should do something about the fraud cases involving Lawal, Oke and others. Some of us in the party are also not happy about what is going on.”

Another APC chieftain in Edo State and a former House of Representatives member, Mr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa, equally supported the call for the sacking of Lawal and others.

He said, “As far as the SGF is concerned, we do know that there is a report which is pending, but nobody knows whether it will be presented at the end of the President’s tenure. I think the President is going to have a big albatross around his neck if he does not do away with the SGF.

“You can see how that suspension was celebrated. You could see the controversy associated with that person. And I think the safest bet for him (Buhari) is to renounce that appointment and get somebody else in order to save himself some credibility.”

West-Idahosa noted that it would be debatable if the President can be re-elected in case of an election today because people expected him to fight corruption.

In Bayelsa State, Chief Richard Kpodo, an APC chieftain, who is a former Interim Chairman of the party in the state, said the President should sack them if he found them culpable, saying such would dispel insinuations that the anti-corruption war had been one-sided.”

However, Kpodo said, ‘’The President is a very busy man and I think he is taking his time to study the reports, but if he finds them guilty, he must not hesitate to sack them as he did Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina.’’

In Owerri, the Imo State capital, the former (Legal) Adviser to Governor Rochas Okorocha, Prof. Francis Dike, SAN, also told Saturday PUNCH that the President’s delay in taking decisions on sensitive issues like Lawal and Yusuf would make tongues to wag as well as affect the President’s mantra of zero tolerance for corruption.

In his view, however, another chieftain of the APC in Ondo State, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, advised that anti-corruption fight should not only be seen as Buhari’s responsibility but everybody’s.

But, childhood friend of the President, Aba Alli, who is a former senator in the Second Republic, said the President would never joke with the issue of corruption. He described the allegations against Yusuf as an “internal matter between the minister and the NHIS boss.”

He said, “You and I don’t know what the report (on the SGF) contains. President Buhari is taking his time so that he would be fair to all concerned.”

However, the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who spoke at the Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference in Lagos, on Friday, noted that the President would soon address the SGF and the NIA DG’s cases.

“As for the SGF, DG of NIA matter, the president will decide on that soon. The SGF remains suspended and the president will speak on that very soon but I cannot tell when,” he noted.

YelloweWest:
In our life time women will walk around completely nakèd and it will be normal.

It will start in the West and we as usual will copy hook line and sinker.

As for me and my son's and daughters we will serve the Living God!

mbaboy:
APC is a conglomerate of hardened criminals, their lies are catching up with them already.

Qsscruz:
A messiah? How many miracles has he performed ? Or is he only a professional in looting ? Please we need a psychiatric hospital in Aso rock..

mbaboy:
This APC useless government keep embarrassing Nigerians with their lies. I can't wait for 2019 to come to push Buhari back to Daura

Spylord48:
Apc right now.. This is a lie!!! We won't agree

Oshidaguy:
Time for propaganda is over, e don clear for their eye

At least three local government areas in Nigeria are still cut off due to the presence of Boko Haram insurgents, the United Nations has said.

The claim is coming weeks after the military command in northeast Nigeria announced that no part of Borno state was under the control of the deadly group.

But the UN said despite efforts by the military, some locations in Borno state, including three whole local government areas, remained inaccessible to aid workers as a result of the threat posed by the Boko Haram sect.

The report was issued by the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian (OCHA). It said Boko Haram hostilities that slowed down due to the rainy season might increase in the coming months.
“Insecurity, presence of mines, improvised explosive devices, and unexploded ordinances had continued to slow down the response of humanitarian agencies in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states” said OCHA’s monthly report for September 2017, titled, “North-East Nigeria: Humanitarian Situation Update”.
“Most roads to the south, south-west and east remain unusable due to security concerns and most humanitarian personnel movement is done through air assets. Cargo, however, is being transported via road with armed escorts as a last resort.”

The UN agency added that, “No humanitarian aid is currently reaching locations in these LGAs outside of the LGAs’ main towns called ‘headquarters’. Major humanitarian supply routes towards the west, north-west and north are open for humanitarians without the use of armed escorts. Following advocacy efforts, Konduga and Mafa are now also accessible to aid groups without military escorts.”
The UN said it was battling with paucity of funds due to the failure of donors worldwide to fully meet their financial commitment towards the North-east.
The director of Army Public Relations, Sani Usman, told journalists the Army would not Immediately comment on the report until it studied its details.

naijaboy756:
lalasticlala.......seee APC snakes o

TonyeBarcanista:
APDA Youths have returned to PDP after some reconciliation that was held and circumstance that came up.

So, I'm back... No Bashing though (at least for today)

alcmene:
They will now try to victimize her because she is not from the north, so that they can replace her with a Northerner.

There is so much impunity among this northerners. Yorubas should just stop being sheepish.

Query Danbazau not Oyo-Ita

Gulderbottle85:
God bless GEJ

Spylord48:
Chai seems the corruption allegations in this government Will be worst than the past administration.
May God help us all o

father01:
And some zombies said PDP is dead, just yesterday over 10,000 APC members decamped to PDP in Katsina state, Long live PDP.

tuniski:
That is the presidency Buhari is just an impotent president! The weakest president in our history is Sai Baba!

Onbelivable:
LOL.. this government ehn.. so if people no shout about this man,naso them for keep quiet..abi? lol.. all these drama will end few weeks,nothing wll happen to the man abeg,, buhari and efcc make una rest

greatermax77:
PMB is the worst cunning & most trickish person.
But many gullible thought he is a man of integrity

arabbunkum:
Maina is from the North. Anyone complaining should dust his voters card and wait for 2019. As for PMB, I'm neither surprised nor disappointed. I have never believed and will never believe in your anti-corruption facade. It's all balderdash.

FLYFIRE:
His only sin is exposing bubu & his thieves

biacan:
I thought they shot tinubu it would have been better