The All
Progressives Congress says President Goodluck Jonathan cannot fight corruption
even if he is given 60 years to rule Nigeria.
The APC said
this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
while reacting to a promise by Jonathan that he would institute anti-corruption
programmes if re-elected next month.
The APC said
Jonathan’s inability to tackle corruption was not surprising as “a corrupt
government can never fight corruption.”
It said it
was surprising that Jonathan was still initiating a plan to tackle corruption
despite the presence of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as well as
the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.
The statement
read, “Mr. President said he wants to put in place the institutions to tackle
corruption before taking on the cankerworm that has almost destroyed the fabric
of our society. Pray, whatever happened to the EFCC and the ICPC? Were they not
institutions specifically created for the purpose of tackling corruption, but
which the Jonathan administration chose to castrate?
‘’There is no
better way to say this: President Jonathan lacks the political will to tackle
corruption, and he will not tackle it if he spends 60 years in office.”
The party
said it was unfortunate that despite spending about five years in office, the
Jonathan administration was just beginning to diagnose the problems of Nigeria.
It said, “A
President who has spent the last six years trying to diagnose the main problems
facing the country will apparently need another four years to plan how to
tackle the challenges. By then, all of us would have been buried under the
rubble of corruption and our country would have been decimated by insecurity.
“It is
therefore time for Nigerians to vote in a President who will hit the ground
running, a President who will tackle the problems of corruption and insecurity
headlong, without giving excuses for failure.”
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