The Ijaw People Development Initiative (IPDI) in Delta state on Thursday, August 13, scrutinized the anti-graft battle of President Muhammadu Buhari and concluded that he was combating common political enemies in the country and not corruption, as he had made people to believe.
Comrade Austin Ozobo, the national president of the group, in a statement in Warri, said: “Buhari has not shown Nigerians any readiness to fight corruption. A good leader must begin sanctification from his house. He must first remove the veil in his own eyes before thinking of removing the veil in another man’s eyes.
“It is obvious his fight is targeted at common political enemies in the country, it is to witch-hunt and weaken the opposition, if not, why has no move been made to arrest corrupt APC ex-governors, instead Buhari is providing cover for corrupt APC ex governors and other leaders.
“His corruption crusade is one-sided and selective in nature. You cannot hide your sins and begin to condemn others. Such persons are hypocrites and pretenders and their punishment will be twice over in heaven. The arrest and claims against former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, is a clear evidence to show that Buhari is only fighting political antagonists.”
The group advise President Buhari to probe former governors Rotimi Amaechi, Babatunde Fashola, Rabiu Kwakwanso. In their opinion, the APC’s leader, Bola Tinubu, and several other notable APC leaders in the country should also be put under investigation.
“Why should corrupt APC leaders be freely walking about the corridors of power without being questioned and the president is pretending and paying deaf ears to the public outcry to bring them to justice,” the IPDI queried.
Meanwhile, Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, has described President Buhari as a different man from the man he knew while the retired general was in the military uniform on the Nigerian political landscape.
Soyinka said in his interview with Zero Tolerance that the new leader of Nigeria is the one who is ready to make amends for his past mistakes. He added that Buhari has already paid some debts to the Nigerian society, described him as a ‘lucky man’.
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