President Muhammadu Buhari came to power with globally acknowledged glittering anti-corruption credentials. Against the background of corruption charges against his opponent, former President Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari is expected to clean the Augean stables and fulfill his campaign promises.
Since he assumed power on May 29, 2015, expectations have been high in this regard. He has promised to probe Jonathan’s administration, and it is clear from the activities of the DSS and EFCC that the probe is in full swing. He has publicly spoken about recovering billions of naira in looted funds.
But Ayo Fayose, the governor of Ekiti, has introduced another dimension to the debate: Buhari should start by probing those who funded his presidential campaign in the first place. Buhari had said, while collecting the APC nomination forms last year, that he had to take a bank loan to pay the N27.5 million fee, but his campaign would later cost billions of naira.
Fayose said: “Some of those who sponsored the president’s election have not done any other jobs apart from holding public offices. Yet, they provided private jets and funds with which the president campaigned across the length and breadth of Nigeria. He should let Nigerians know where they got money to buy private jets and the several billions of naira spent on his election.”
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Who among his sponsors? Is Asiwaju Tinubu who is the most investigated politician in Africa during the last 16years of PDP misrule. He was taken to the Code of conduct bureau when EFCC couldn’t indict him…….. what’s to be investigate again in this man of virtue and development?.just an envy of a generous mn
For the fact that the Code of conduct bureau didn’t indict is one the many problems with our judicial system.
Fyi, that man is stinking with corrupt wealth. and until someone pick up the case file again he will still be working as a saint. mtchew
Corruption fanatic or what do you call your name?vYou think your irascible disposition towards a person is enough to indict and prosecute without recourse to proper investigation? Look here, having being investigated by OBJ, Yar Adua and GEJ through the EFCC and CCB and not found wanting is a pointer that Tinubu is a shrewd and capable manager of money. If after divesting his wealth and becoming a wealthy man beyond your comprehension is not enough to label him a criminal. No amount of bad mouthing can stain his credentials as an accountant of repute and a good wealth multiplier. If he could not be investigated, arrested and inducted by a serving government while he was in opposition, how do you in your wayward imagination think he would be indicted by a government in which he is a stakeholder. My friend, get down from that your high horse and look Tinubu less. He is an untouchable fellow as far his past deeds are concerned, you can only hold him accountable for his future undertakings. Tenkiu…..
Segun u just spoke my mind, thank u
Then GEJ or Baba Iyabo should reincarnate to commence another round of probe of Jagaban. It is outside PMB’s agenda.
By the way why should anyone listen to that rabble rouser and disgeace of Yoruba race who has shirked his responsibikity of governance to turn PMB’s chief critic? How has his srate benefitted from his unrelenting and jaundiced criticisms? Shoukd he be taken seriously when he has not pronounced any achievement since he assumed office, not even to commence the probe of his predecessor which is within his prerogative, The same man that wished PMB dead before the election. Come on let’s get serious by ignoring this leadership misfit!
Please ask for forgiveness from God if you do not have any evidence for EFCC or ICPC TI link him to any wrongdoing…. Our society crucufies you even without knowing you. Do you believe that PDP at National and State levels have not tried but in vain to find anything..
The burden of proof is on you. Provide your proof evidentially or keep permanent quiet my friend
Quite un4tunate u tok as if u r nt a Nigerian. Were you nt in Nigeria during Iboris case n wot happened afterwards. Nobody is above d law, dat Tinu was nt indicted den does nt mke him clean. Let all corrupt officers be brought to book period n fo Mr presido t prove his integrity his fight against corruption shd cut across the globe if nt let him channel his energy on d betterment of d economy
stop this hypocrisy.
I don’t see any name been mentioned here. Why do you assume it is Tinubu?
Why Tinibu gets investigated? There must be a smoking screen. Just because he gets away when ever he is got does not make him innocent. He knows ways to get out, you call that smooth not clean.
To satisfy our curiosity and justify the probing of PDP members,Buhari should do the needful on APC members too.
I wonder when Buhari supporters became corruption free…
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a hero
If anyone has anything against Buhari’sponsors, let them write petition s against those and forward to EFCC. If they were afraid to probe those before them that’s their headache. Buhari’sponsors if any is guilt of misdemeanours and you know them…please bring up please
Can you take this man to be a serious man? always in beer parlors ,drinker governor
Ayo Fayose’s credentials does not present a picture of a serious petitioner. The likes of him are the strays in Nigeria’s political waters and the current waves of probes must send jitters down his spine. If he has no skeleton in his cupboard, he should allow the government in power to execute its anti-corruption crusade. As a governor, he owes a serious allegiance to his President irrespective of his political leaning. I think it is hightime he learns the correct rules of democratic game.
Baba belongs to nobody, lets probe everybody or we probe nobody. Probe Jonathan, probe Tinubu, probe Fayose, probe Amaechi…let the sword be swinging left and right.
Correct.
Why all these hues and cries? I am not sure there is a better way of confronting the plague called Corruption than what is on ground now. The object of probe is to recover the loots and punish the culprit as provided by the existing law. Whoever has incriminating evidence against any Nigerian, please report it to EFCC.
Nigeria is a great nation of wonderful people. 90% of the time our position on issues are be clouded by the sentiments of interest.
Any true and objectives Nigerian will appreciate Ayo Fayose’Fayose’s perspective.
If you want to make a hole as excape route, you must use sizable man that when other come, they will have access.
I am confident MB will listen to AF.
In your dreams. A governor that peddles beer parlour gists and most unstatesman like of the lot should be listened to.
Pls don’t paint everyone with the same brush that you and your ilk are used to.i see no sentiments here but common sense and focus. If you read the administration lips well, it said it will probe the past administration, QED. It shouldn’t be blamed for the reluctance, failure and refusal of the past administration to probe wrong doings before them or during their stint.
Let us be focus, so that quality result can be achieved. The PMB had said, he is probing immediate past administration,why do we need to be pointing fingers on other group.
If Fayose has genuine evidence against the PMB election sponsors, let him present this.
We @ thekillerpunch.com says, on fighting corruption, President Buhari should start with himself and also treat everybody equally, no political party sentiment, anything short of that is witch-hunting.
Baba will do better by revisiting the Obasanjo probe of PTF that indited him along with officials of Afri-Consult so that we can trust what he has set out to do. Anything to the contrary will definitely portray him as witch-hunter and vengeful ruler.
We are in a desperate world. People are tarnishing others image because of hatred. Why should Buhari probe his sponsors. Why PDP make a lot of noise because they have been removed from the highest office in the country. When they were there, they behave like nobody other than them could be there. They use our money to pay their staff. Events are on folding and they are desperate to transfer people’s anger on their heads to others. Look at how they are desperate to tarnish Amaechi’s name because they know that Amaechi is bigger them they all. Let us ask ourselves questions. Was their governorship election in River State? Did Wike won the election? How? Because he was helped by INEC Commissioner and Officials. Buhari should ignore the call of PDP to probe his sponsors. It is the normal thing that he must be sponsored by person/s interested in him. Amaechi worked hard and he will be rewarded no matter what Wike, PDP and their cohorts thinks and says.
It does not matter where the anti-corruption probes starts. What matters is for thieves to be caught, brought to book and caused to return the loots. if there are million thieves and you caught 1000, you would have succeeded in depleting an army of thieves. Governor Fayose should concentrate more on giving good governance to his people.
You should tell him to concentrate on beer parlors matter.
Fayose,should learn how to eat green grass because his pay master is not more in the system of business as usual.GEJ government was rated as most corrupted government ever had since inception of democracy in Nigerian therefore,there must be a overhaul probe of his tenure.Mr.fayose should shut up his month while teem Nigerian are in support of PMB’s action.
If buhari should probe those who sponsored him fine but I believe he’s going to probe fayose him self and senate president bukola Saraki first before anybody
The reality is that the President is not under any obligation to probe anybody. What stopped PDP Presidents from probing their predecessors? However, people who are clamouring for him probing Asiwaju and the likes of Amaechi should know that the President is only probing people that had something to do at the national or federal level and not at the states. He is focused and so, if the likes of Wike has anything against Amaechi, he should report it to EFCC. If Fayose has anything against Fayemi or his appointees, he should take them to EFCC. When EFCC fails to do anything, that’s when we can cry foul. What PDP should be agitating for now, should be the impartiality of the graft agencies.
Ayo Fayose is not a man to be taken seriously by any sane individual. He looks more of a political thug than a governor, and his perspectives on public affairs lends credence to this. It beats logic that PMB should hunt those who helped him to power without any shred of evidence, and even if one exists what did the former govt do to bring the culprits to book? Methinks PMB should remain focussed on clearing the Augean stables.
For equity sake, they should be probe. I am sure they are not afraid of being probed neither should we. I am very sure Amechi and Lion of Bodilon will come out clean.
In your dreams
He that goes to equity must go with clean hands.For Buhari’s probe to have any meaning, he must start from the corrupt people who sponsored his election. It is then that Nigerians would believe that he means business. But if he continues with his perceived enemies, the probe will be meaningless.
AF should show us the way by probing the past admin. in his state, PMB has enough to work with at the federal level. Its not PMB’s fault that PDP failed atleast three times to convict tinubu. Jagaban is the most probed politician in this country. he was even docked by Yar adua in court and he went in with 20 SAN’s to defend himself. PDP failed to convict jagaban. we still have alot of politicians that have not even been probed talk less of charged to court. AF shld probe Fayemi first and lets see and PDP shld leave PMB alone to decide where he wants to probe, they had there chance for 16 yrs and blew it
Most of those who have commented on Fayose’s objective submission, are sheer APC members and paid commentators who usually gang up to attack any objective opinion expressed by people against the party and it’s pack of lairs. Why on earth should Buhari exempt members of the APC from probe if they are found wanting? Doing so, will amount to corruption itself. Buhari’s campaign sponsors should be called upon to explain how they got the private jets and the billions they used to support him as serving or former public office holders. The truth is that they’ve all stolen Nigerian money one time or another. They are all corrupt people and should be probed equally. No sacred cow.
It is obvious that the strategy using by the APC is a on delay mode to distract nigerians fromm the false promises they made, i think Buhari should do atleast one out of all he said, then we can listen to what he has
Clean your eye first,before you can clean my eye.
Yes I totally agree with the governor charity begins at home so say the commonly known adage.mr president should explain to Nigerians how his campaign was launched and funded.
It baffles me when many of us Nigerians speak as if we are remote controlled. Let’s put sentiment apart(I hardly comment on political issues, I only watch events keenly), when politicking was going on, we all knew that 90 to 95% of those that decamped from PDP to APC were stinkingly corrupt people who rebelled not because they repented but because their selfish interest and future were threatened. If they had repented, they would have returned their stolen funds.But they didn’t. They only tried to gain power so that they can have direct access to the ‘cake’. And the only way they could do it was to present a ‘corrupt free’ man as a flagbearer. If any of them had come out as a flagbearer, such would have failed woefully. So friends, PDP is deeply corrupt, APC is stinkinly corrupt. Buhari only rode on back of corrupt people gain power. And any reasonable fight against corruption in our nation must be total and without exception or else it will cause more damage to our dear country. Lastly, when we comment on national issues let’s remove sentiment and selfish interest. It won’t promote our growth and togetherness. Let’s always call a spade a spade. Thank you!
We voted PMB to fight corruption. insecurity and impunity what else do you want.
You spoke like an intelligent man. Why would Buhari be selective in his crusade against corruption? All these lilly-livered apologists are swimming in the sea of ignorance.
Fayose and his ilk are attempting to divert Nigerians attention from the most recent pillage of our national patrimony.We shall not stop until we recover most of the LOOT. Can you imagine the level of heist being discovered everyday. Yet, they can still open their mouth scandalously to talk. I pity them because, when caught in public, they will face “jungle justice”. Thank God for democracy and the rule of law.
The fight against corruption is only meaning full if no one is spared. IBB is the inspiration for corruption and OBJ is the inspiration for Lawlessness. Until these two principalities are brought to justice or justice taken to them there is no hope.
I basically support the probe of everyone found wanting, but In my own view of the above, there should be difference in the judgement of the repentant and unrepentant sinner. A thief who believed stealing isn’t a crime also supported stealing to continue and a thief who tirelessly prayed to God Almighty to send a messiah to come and salvage the people because he realises and believes that stealing is a crime before God and man.
You see, no one at home or in the international community will take the President and his co-travellers serious if he fails to make a clean sweep of this augean stables. To do otherwise would be viewed as sectional,biased and partisan. Yes, it may be correct to say many of the perceived corrupt former and even present public office holders have been cleared in the past, but we will all admit that the anti-corruption agencies of yesterday are not the same as they are today. Though nothing has changed in the constitution and structure of these bodies, we are already witnessing a change in the approaches adopted. This is the effect of merely observing the body language of Mr. President. Please lets help this President to succeed in this regard because we all have everything to loose should the contrary happen. A system where everyone take his or her fair share according to his effort will check inflation, lawlessness, injustice, promote accountability and discourage abuse of power.
let me start by saying that a lot of people goes with sentiments whch will never do this country any good if Buhari wants to probe and recover the looted funds then the probe should not be selective but all encompassing for no body is above the law and as such all those who held public office in the past ACROSS PARTY LINES SHOULD BE PROBE BECAUSE ALL YOU KNOW IS WHAT YOU SAY WE CAN NO LONGER CONTINUE THE WAY WE DO THINGS. FAYOSE DID NOT MENTION ANYBODY,S NAME AND AS SUCH IF YOU ARE OUT MENTIONING NAMES THEN THEY ARE OF QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER HENCE THOSE NAMES COMES TO YOUR MIND.AGAIN NIGERIA IS FORUS ALL WE HAVE BEEN HEARING FOR THE PAST YEARSHOW OUR LEADERS MILK THE TREASURY DRY BOTH AT STATE LEVEL AND THE FEDERALAND AS SUCH THERE IS NO SCARE COW THEY ARE ALL GUILTY ONCE THE BOOKS ARE OPENED NOW YOU WILL SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THEM ALL. BUHARI AS A MATTER OF FACT SHOULD START HIS PROBE FROM HIS OWN HOUSE TO GIVE HIS ACTIONS CREDIBILTY.ONE MORE THING ALL PAST GOVERNMENT FROM IBB, ABDULSALAM, OBJ/ATIKU ALL OUGHT TO BE PROBE AS THEIR STEWARDSHIP WAS ALL A DISSERVICE TO THE COUNTRY.
Let’s God take control and direct him as he’s being doing.
As much as I don’t want him to be bias, I think people like Tinubu and Amechi has paid for some of the sins that they have committed and until another record(s) is opened either by their deeds or action or inaction, he shouldn’t bit the fingers that feed him.
I however believe that God is taking us to somewhere very great and we’re lucky to to somebody like Buhari to be in charge. That’s why people like Fayose can still make suggestion that’s worthy of debate in our national issues. A word is always enough…
Accoutability is goodfor everybody but Biting the fingers that fed you is bad karma.
Selective justice never works anywhere in the world. At best it makes heros of the witch-hunted. If all the mad chant of ‘chandeee’ is to end up as a political-lynch of perceived enemies then we should be back to square- one
The world will not take any fight against corruption in nigeria serious if the harliburton scandal remained under carpet because it is mother of all corruption. before his famous journey to america the president was reported to have asked the harliburton file to be ‘prepared’…… pray! what happened after the ‘preparation’
When sai baba was invited to face oputa panel for probe he refused to attend. now he wants to ‘probe’ others…. Yet some appologists want to blame johnatan for not probing his ‘powerful’ – ‘born to rule’ predecessors!!
it will definatly be a wrong political perception for President Buhari to probe or commence probing with his cabinet.Surely we know that some of these men are not pure when it comes to corruption allegation, but also we should realise that they formulate his caucuse and political structure.And also any form of allegation from any of them in term of any act that provide for probing should be table from the various state level.And not president Buhari to flash the commencement of their probing.We should also remembered that no leader or government with visssion and mission can stand without structure.