President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Governor of Zamfara State and Chairman Nigerian Governors Forum Alhaji Abdelaziz Abubakar Yari, SGF Engr Babachir, David Lawal, Minister of FCT, Alhaji Mohammed Bello and Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari on arrival for the National Economic Council Meeting retreat at the State House Conference in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the “blackmail” of some senior officials of his government.
In a statement by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, on Tuesday, Buhari “appealled to discerning Nigerians to ignore orchestrated attempts to sully the integrity of ministers and other senior government officials, who are being tarred with the brush of corruption without any concrete evidence”.
According to Adesina, the president was “reacting to reports, particularly by online media, that the immediate past group managing director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), who is also minister of state for petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, is being investigated over crude oil swap deals and gas lifting during his tenure as GMD of the petroleum corporation”.
Buhari appealed for decent and civilised comments, particularly when it has to do with the integrity of those serving the country.
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“Terrible and unfounded comments about other people’s integrity are not good. We are not going to spare anybody who soils his hands, but people should please wait till such individuals are indicted,” the president said.
Buhari reiterated his administration’s commitment to probity, accountability and integrity, promising that transparency remains a watchword, which would never be trifled with.
The president has been accused of shielding Abdulrahman Dambazau, former minister of interior and former chief of army staff between 2008 and 2010, who was not indicted in the probe of arms procurement in the armed forces between 2007 and 2015.
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Buhari, however, ordered the investigation of two former army chiefs — Azubuike Ihejirika and Kenneth Minimah — for alleged procurement fraud.
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.I THINK IS TIME FOR NIGERIANS TO RISE UP AGAINST THIS FRAUD AND DECEPTIVE BUHARI
GOVERNMENT.THIS GOVERNMENT IS VERY HYPOCRITICAL,INSINCERE,BIASED AND INCONSIDERATE..BUHARI LACKS VISION AND COMMON SENSE.YOU ARE A TRIBALIST AND CARELESS ABOUT TRUE
JUSTICE AND WITH THIS YOUR EVIL TRENDS YOU MUST SURE FAIL BECAUSE YOU WILL REAP THE EVIL THAT YOU SOW.
AND NO MATER HOW YOU TURN BLACK TO BE WHITE IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY YOUR EVIL AND ONE SIDED TRIBALISTIC APPOINTMENTS,Silent over Fulani herdsmen killings and selective corruption trials.WE ARE NOT KIDS AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU.BEAR IN MIND THAT THE WORLD AND HISTORY WILL HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR CAUSING THE NEXT CIVIL WAR
AND TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA AND I BET YOU,YOU AND YOUR HAUSA FULANI’S WILL LOOSE AT THE END. CANT YOU BORROW A LEAF FROM OTHER SUCCESSFUL NATIONS AND SEE HOW THEY MOVED
THEIR COUNTRY FORWARD.INSTEAD AT THIS MODERN TIME YOU ARE BREEDING AND ENCOURAGING MEDIEVAL AND UNCIVILIZED IDEOLOGY THAT HAS NO PLACE IN THIS MODERN ERA AND YOU WILL
NEVER SUCCEED. THE OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD ARE SENDING ASTRONOMERS TO THE MOON,BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES AND CREATING A VIBRANT ECONOMIC POLICIES THAT WILL CREATE JOBS
AND ENHANCE HUMAN LIVING STANDARDS .INSTEAD YOU ARE GIVING MACHETES AND GUNS TO YOUR PRIMITIVE FULANI KINSMEN TO KILL AND DESTROY PEOPLES HARD EARNED BUILT HOUSES AND
FARM LANDS AND CROPS THEREBY SINKING THE COUNTRY INTO HARDSHIP AND CRISES. GOD IS WATCHING YOU. AND UPON ALL THESE KILLINGS,YOU NEVER TAKING ANY SERIOUS ACTIONS.CANT
YOU SEE HOW OTHER WORLD LEADERS CANCEL THEIR APPOINTMENTS AND ENGAGEMENTS TO ATTEND TO A SINGLE HUMAN LIFE LOST IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES?BUT HERE FULANI`S KILL
100S AND U NEVER COME OUT ON NATIONAL RADIO TO UTTER A WORD.THE WORLDS KNOWS WHO U ARE NOW.
YOU SAID YOU ARE EMPLOYING THE BEST HANDS AND ONE YEAR IN OFFICE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT. LOOK AT THE STATE OF ECONOMY,ELECTRICITY,MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE VALUE OF
OUR CURRENCY E.T.C. AND THE HARDSHIP YOU BROUGHT UPON NIGERIANS..MARK MY WORDS,YOUR EVILS WILL CAUGHT UP WITH YOU AND YOUR SO CALLED EDUCATED ILLITERATES THAT YOU
CALLED YOUR BEST. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO BLACK RACE. AND NEVER YOU IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE,EVEN IN YOUR DREAMS THINK YOU WILL SUCCEED TO ISLAMISE NIGERIA. THIS A VERY LARGE
COUNTRY AND TOO BIG FOR THAT YOUR UNPATRIOTIC AND UNCIVILIZED IDEOLOGY..YOU WILL ONLY SUCCEED IN CREATING CIVIL WAR AND YOU WILL LOOSE..SHAME ON YOU.
I VOTED FOR YOU I EVEN WENT BACK TO MY VILLAGE ALL THE WAY FROM OVERSEA TO VOTE FOR YOU WITH THE HOPE THAT OUR MESSIAH HAS COME .BUT NOW YOU CAME TO DIVIDE US AND
STILL YOU ARE PROUD TO SAY NIGERIA UNITY IS NOT NEGOTIABLE. I WONDER IF YOUR MENTAL REASONING IS STILL BALANCE OR ARE YOU OPERATING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ANY HARD
SUBSTANCE? .WELL,WHAT EVER IT IS TIME WILL TELL.I REST MY CASE TO GOD