Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described the suspension of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir Lawal; and the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke as an after-thought by President Buhari.
Fayose also said the setting up of a three-man Committee headed by Vice President Yomi Osinbajo to investigate the discovery of over N13 billion cash by the EFCC in a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos is diversionary and a prelude to the official cover-up of the original owners of the money.
He stated that the Buhari-led government was becoming an embarrassment to Nigerians with its macabre dance of shame.
Fayose said, “Would the President have set up a probe panel if these scams were linked to anyone in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) or those members of his party that are not in his good books?
“Most importantly, what business does Presidential Committee have with investigation of crime?
“Are they telling Nigerians that they have lost confidence in all the intelligence and investigative agencies of the government, including the EFCC and DSS?
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said it has become obvious that President Buhari has lost control of his government.
“The Buhari-led Federal Government is operating like many governments within one government. There appears to be many Presidencies within the Presidency and this is the reason for the confusion everywhere.”
“The cat of President Buhari’s government hypocrisy in its fight against corruption has already been let of the bag”.
Read Also:
- Police Cyber Crime Centre Arraign 109 Foreign Nationals on 6 Count Fraud Charges at Federal High Court; Case Adjourned to Nov 22, 2024
- Tinubu Hopes on you to Actualise Policy on National Stability, Food Security – CDS tells Defence Intelligence Officers
- PSC Chairman Calls for Humane Treatment of Arrested Suspects Regarding the Right to Dignity of Persons; Warns Against Subjecting Suspects to Any form of Torture, Degrading Treatment
“Nigerians can no longer be deceived by a government that protects its own people whenever they are accused of corruption while setting the DSS and EFCC to invade houses of members of opposition parties, especially those perceived as having presidential ambition in 2019 in the night to arrest and detain them indefinitely even when corruption allegations against them have not been proved”.
Noting that Buhari’s inability to take actions beyond his political party and ethnic sentiments was responsible for the present controversies, Fayose asked, “Did the President not write a letter dated January 17, 2017, to the Senate, exonerating the SGF?
“So what has changed in the case of the SGF? Was his announced suspension just for balancing?
“Why waiting for this messy Osborne Gate to act on the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) grass-cutting scam?
“Could it have been a case of one Presidency (Buhari), writing the Senate on January 17, 2017 to clear the SGF and another Presidency suspending him today?
“Whichever way one looks at it, it gives no other impression than that of confusion in the government.”
“Is their presidential committee also going to tell Nigerians those who abandoned N49 million cash in an airport that has CCTV cameras?
“What about the owner of the N448 million the EFCC said it found in a shop at LEGICO Shopping Plaza, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos?
“In all these, what I see is a government trying frantically to cover-up corrupt acts of its functionaries but like I said before now, even though we know that the APC-led federal government has the capacity to sweep it under the carpet like many others before it, Nigerians will have it on record that they are being ruled by a government of the more you look, the less you see.”
END
