…asks elite to stand up for Nigeria
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
Lagos lawyer Festus Keyamo has spurned his fellow Niger Deltan,
President Goodluck Jonathan and endorsed All Progressives Congress, APC
candidate for the presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari, saying the
President has proved his incapacity to fight corruption.
Keyamo in a statement made available
to Vanguard, yesterday, said the President’s decision to appoint a money-laundering
suspect who he, Keyamo is prosecuting on behalf of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, was a great act of indiscretion.
Keyamo also dismissed assertions of
Buhari’s lack of a certificate as a non-issue just as he flayed the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, for focussing its campaign on the personality of the APC
candidate instead of on issues.
While enjoining Nigerian elite to
move from the fence, he said: “We have a President who has no single appetite
to fight corruption – yes, none. Imagine a campaign that is dominated by the
theme of corruption, yet the President has decided to appoint a person facing
trial for money-laundering as his Director of Media and Publicity.
“If nobody would say it, I will say
it because I am the one prosecuting the fellow in court and the case has been
adjourned to February 23 and 24 for trial. Part of the lies told is that the
fellow has been freed whereas some of the counts in the charge were just struck
out and the court held that he has a case to answer on some other counts. Yet
nobody is asking the President these hard questions.
“All the personal attacks on the
person of Buhari in the last few weeks have only convinced me that he is the
best available option at this time. Anyone on the weaker side in any argument
always resorts to personal abuses and attacks. Have you noticed that on
corruption, the only accusation against Buhari is that, he was too high-handed
in fighting corruption in the past?”
In other words, nobody has accused
him of lacking the courage, zeal and will to fight corruption.
“In one of his famous interviews,
Jonathan did not see stealing as corruption.”
Source: Vanguard
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