The President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation has said that if the system in Nigeria was woking well before President Buhari took over in 2015, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would have been in jail let alone contesting for the presidency.
The organisation said this, Wednesday December 26 2018 in a statement signed its Director of Stragetic Communications, Festus Keyamo (SAN).
According to it, in a system that is working Atiku, for instance would not have acquired substantive shares in INTELS in clear conflicts of his duties as a customs officer while in duty.
Below is the full text of the release.
“If the system were to be working before Presiden muhammudu Buharitook over in 2015, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would be in jail by now instead of contesting for the presidency.
“Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to the Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar disputing the assertion by President Muhammadu Buhari that the system in Nigeria allows corruption to thrive because the system is slow in tackling corruption. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar further blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for perceived failure in addressing some instances of ‘corrupt practices’ under his watch.
“Let us remind Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that he is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the failed system in tackling corruption that was in place before President Muhammadu Buhari took over in 2015. We know he is aware of this, hence his latest diatribe against President Muhammadu Buhari amounts to nothing but disgusting grandstanding and an attempt to mock the system.
“If the system in Nigeria was indeed working, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would not have acquired substantial shares in INTELS in clear conflict of his duties as a Customs Officer whilst in office. Those shares would have belonged to the Nigerian people by now.
“If the system in Nigeria was indeed working, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would not have run a monopolistic company called INTELS all these years, ripping off the Nigerian people and the Nigerian State before Muhammadu Buhari came and broke that monopoly.
“If the system was working, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would have been prosecuted and jailed for various acts of corruption and abuse of office after he left office as Vice President, some of which are:
“(a) For himself and his boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, granting themselves licenses to build universities as President and Vice President whilst in office in clear breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers. Those Universities would have been probed, seized and transferred to the Nigeria State and the Nigerian people by now.
“(b) Laundering slush funds to the United States of America using phony companies, part of which was used to fund his present American University in Adamawa State through which he is also extorting Nigerians through exorbitant fees. It is public knowledge that this indictment is contained in a …
[07:45, 12/27/2018] Editor Boss: Ekiti State’s first lady wins UN award for SDG top performance
The first lady of Ekiti State and wife of the state governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has received the “Gender Main-streaming Award.”
The award presented to the state government by the UN Women is in recognition of the achievements of Ekiti State Sustainable Development Goals Office in the area of gender main-streaming.
At the presentation of the award, the state SDGs Secretary and Focal Person, Mr. Olukayode Adunmo, explained that one of the 17 sustainable goals, precisely, goal 5 is to “Achieve gender equality and empower all Women and Girls.”
According to Adunmo who presented the award, “Ekiti State SDGs office had always been fully involved in making this goal a reality through the various policies and programmes introduced and executed by the administration.”
Going by reports, UNWomen in partnership with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs (OSSAP-SDGs) had invited the SDGs office in the 36 states to submit summary of their works on gender main-streaming and Ekiti State’s entry came first, hence the recognition.
