Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido has described
the President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war as a ‘noise.’
Lamido, a former minister of Foreign Affairs, while speaking
with the BBC Hausa Service yesterday, claimed that President Buhari could not
be passed as a saint because he was “equally corrupt when he served under the
late Head of State Sani Abacha.”
Buhari had served as chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust
Fund (PTF) which was established by Abacha in 1994 to provide critical
infrastructure across the country.
“He (Buhari) worked under Abacha; in fact he was the closest
to the late military ruler and when it comes to corruption, everybody knows
where Abacha’s government stands,” Lamido said.
“Buhari is just making noise; there’s no iota of truth in
the so-called commitment to the improvement of security and halting graft in
the country”, he added.
Lamido, who was reacting to the recent discovery of huge
amount of money in an apartment in Ikoyi wondered why the anti-graft agency was
yet to trace the real owner of the money.
He said, “It’s unthinkable to say that the EFCC had
discovered huge monies (nearly N15 billion) in a building (Osborne Towers) in
Lagos but could not track the real owner; who leaked the story? Who did the
source say is the owner of the find?
“No reasonable person will believe that there is no safe for
the NIA (which claimed ownership) to keep its money but a private residence in
Lagos; those in position of authority should always have the courage to tell
the led the truth because leadership is sacred.”
By Ameh Comrade Godwin
