You’re in midst of corrupt people – Ohanaeze tells Buhari


The Secretary General of the Igbo apex body, Ohanaeze
Ndigbo, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, has urged President Mu­
hammadu Buhari to start his corruption war with people
around him because he is in the midst of them, even
though he is not one of them.
In a chat with Saturday Sun , Dr. Nwaorgu said: “There are
corrupt people around President Buhari. In public
perception, people who are corrupt, are very much around
him.
“He should cast his eyes around him and get those who
are parading to be in the same party with him, but who do
not have the same pedigree in terms of decency like him.”
Nworgu was reacting to statements made earlier in the
week by His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar,
Sultan of Sokoto on the president’s resolve to fight
corruption.
At the National Security Summit organised by the Nigeria
Police in collaboration with The Sun Newspaper, the Sultan
had advocated that looters should not only be made to
return what they stole, but they also should be sent to jail.
On what the president should do to the corrupt he said are
around him (president), the Ohanaeze scribe said he
should do the same thing that he is going to do to those in
other parties – and all the sectors – not just PDP
administration.
Reacting to insinuations from certain quarters that his
crusade is towards the opposition, Dr. Nwaorgu
maintained that the president should cast his net near
enough, noting that there are people who are masquerad­
ing also as angels around him but who are not; but who in
the public eyes are corrupt.
On the position of the Sultan that looters should be jailed,
in addition to retrieving what they stole, Nwaorgu said he
has no comment on that except that, “if the president is
probing, he should go beyond the last regime or else it will
be a witch-hunt. So, he should go deeper than that.
“Obasanjo’s administration should also be probed. Let
them say what they did; they did nothing in Igbo land for
eight years. Were we not part of Nigeria during
Obasanjo’s regime? There is nothing to show for it in Igbo
land, or don’t we have constitutional rights? So, Buhari
should probe from 1999.”
According to him, it is a witch-hunt on his opponent,
former President Goodluck Jonathan, if the probe should
be focused on the last administration. “Just let him start
from 1999. It is not that the military was not corrupt or
there was no corruption under the military, but let us leave
that.”
The Ohanaeze scribe also stated that Igbo are not against
President Buhari, contrary to a statement credited to Dr.
Junaid Mohammed, the Convener of the Coalition of North­
ern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and
Businessmen.
Mohammed, who was responding to Dr. Chukwuemeka
Ezeife’s accusation that Buhari’s appointments so far have
been skewed against Igbo, stated: “If it is about Buhari
making the appointments based on merit, I have no
problems with it. I don’t believe Buhari or Nigeria owes
any Igbo anything.”
According to Dr. Nwaorgu, Igbo are not against Buhari,
stressing that, having won the election, he is now the
president of all. “Electioneering is over and Buhari is the
president of everybody and all Nigerians must co-operate
with him to succeed.
“It is a fact that we voted for Jonathan, but that is
electioneering. It has come and gone. Buhari is president
of Nigeria. Electioneering is gone, governance started on
May 29. Governance is different from electioneering.
When he was running for president, he was an APC person
and now president for all of us.
“So, if people of Junaid Mohammed’s ilk are still
practising outdated politics, they can remain at that level.
Every Nigerian is free to air his opinion.
“Ezeife aired his opinion from his own perspective and
experience. Junaid’s response is at best acerbic and it is
out of tune. It is out of tune with cooperation and
reconciliation.
“No true Nigerian, who believes in unity, will throw up such
nonsense as Junaid Mohammed did. He was playing to
tribal gallery for him to still be seen as somebody cham­
pioning a non-existent cause.
“Such trash should be ignored while we strive hard for
unity in Nigeria. Buhari is our president and nobody can
corner him unto himself or to his tribe.”

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