Osinbajo: “Buhari’s war against Corruption is not targeted at Opposition”

Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said that the anti-corruption efforts of the President Buhari administration is not targeted at opposition parties. He decried the situation where public funds are being diverted for political campaigns in favour of any of the political parties and vowed that never again will that be the case. 

Speaking on Monday at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Mallam Bashir Yusuf-led Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) held at the Yar’adua Centre, Abuja, Osinbajo recalled that when the current government took over from the PDP-led government in May last year, it found out that a huge chunk of money meant for the purchase of arms to fight terrorists in the North-east was diverted.‎

Osinbajo, who was represented his special assistant on political parties, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, said the federal government is not targeting ‎opposition parties in its anti corruption drive but wants to bring sanity to the polity in order to sustain democracy in the country.

“Politics and elections should not be war or ‎depletion of public resources. Never again will government agencies be used in favour of any political party to win elections. The war against corruption is not targeted at the opposition parties. What government is doing now is that money meant for essential services should not be diverted for campaigns or any other purposes.”

He said that the reason why the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is going after some of the stalwarts of the PDP is because the party diverted money meant for public services for political campaigns or other questionable purposes.

He said that the Buhari’s anti corruption drive had gone to show that huge sums of money voted for security was diverted ‎into private pockets while part of the money was used for campaigns by the PDP-led government.

According to the Vice President, the trend cannot be allowed to continue, even as he called on the IPAC tO play critical role in educating political parties and the general public on the issue so that ‎democracy can survive in Nigeria.

Osinbajo recounted the terrible experience of the military in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents during the regime of the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, when some of the soldiers went to the battle with obsolete weapons.

The ‎Senate President, Bukola Saraki in his remarks, called for concerted efforts to sustain the democratic culture in the country.



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