If Buhari Is Truly Fighting Corruption, Nigerian Prisons Should Be Full By Now – Northern Elders

Chairman, Northern Elders’ Forum, (NEF), Professor Ango Abdullahi said on Tuesday, that President Muhammadu Buhari is not fighting corruption in the country.

According to him, if Buhari is truly to fighting corruption, the nation’s courts and prisons would have been congested with corrupt politicians.

Abdullahi stated this while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after the opening of a public lecture in Kaduna state entitled, ‘Education as an Instrument for National Integration: The Northern Nigerian Crisis.’

The northern elder chairman told newsmen that, “we have now seen corruption on a massive scale, and nobody is doing anything about it”.

He said many corrupt politicians are going about freely because APC has forgiven their sins, pointing out that the case that readily came to mind is that of Senator Danjuma Goje whose ‘sin’ was allegedly forgiven by APC.

“The President said he is fighting corruption, but I don’t believe him because, if he is fighting corruption, our courts and prisons should be full by now. This is because corruption is everywhere,” he said.

“You don’t just pick one case and make it a universal example of fighting corruption. We have just seen the conviction of Orji Uzor Kalu and it is becoming something that the world should know, when there are so many people with seventy something billion with them. Those people should be in the same prison with Uzor Kalu.

“And in any case, if you want to say that, Uzor Kalu had committed an offence, but here is a national chairman of a party, the President’s party who pronounces that, don’t worry how much you have stolen somewhere else; as long as you come and say you are a member of APC, you are forgiven.

“A good example of that is former Governor Danjuma Goje. It was the Attorney General of the Federation himself that went to court to say, they were withdrawing the case from the court. And his offences are not different from Orji Uzor Kalu’s and many others that were reported.

“The media is equally guilty in this direction. You journalists are part of the crises that we have, because you are not addressing these issues as hard, objectively and fairly.”