The National Chairman of Action Democratic Party (ADP), Yabaji
Yesufu, has described President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his
administration as super looters.
Yesufu, while speaking with Daily Sun, said former President Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration may be seen as corrupt but that the current
government, though pretending to be fighting corruption, is soaked in
it.
Asked if President Buhari has been successful in the fight against
graft, Yesufu began, “He has not done well. In fact, he has performed
woefully. Even if you take the case of Col. Dasuki, they said he
diverted $2bn that was voted to fight Boko Haram. Today, this government
that came to fight corruption has also done the same thing.
“They have voted $1bn to fight Boko Haram. And we know that there is
no Boko Haram to fight. It is just money to fight election. Or if you
like rob people of their free choice. They want to bastardise the
process more than we have ever seen.
“Don’t forget that the capital budget for 2017 has not been
implemented and here we are battling with the 2018 budget. So what are
they going to do with this money?
“They now came out and say they have $1bn. So if you are talking
about corruption, this government is much corrupt. In fact corruption is
more endemic and entrenched under this administration more than the
previous administration.
“The previous administration, you may call them looters but these
ones are super looters. Because a glaring case of abuse of office by the
former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) took this
administration almost one year plus before they admitted that something
was wrong before they suspended this man and they have refused to allow
the EFCC to interrogate this person.
“We still have other cases of corruption at the highest level of
governance and that wasn’t the case in the Jonathan administration. I am
sure that this government is a still born baby in the fight against
corruption.”/