Atiku Lists Out President Buhari's Sins

President Muhammadu Buhari and previous VP Atiku Abubakar were exchanging heated words between themselves.

The Presidency had in a statement  on Wednesday resolved to stay “uncompromising”, mainly in the combat against corruption. This announcement was a response to Atiku’s claim that the President was power-drunk.

Atiku Abubakar defected from the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, to the PDP under which he's now a presidential aspirant.

As a form of sarcasm, he took it upon himself to list out what he considers as corruption cases in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration after he claimed to be 'uncompromising'.

He said: “If the above is real, then why did the presidency do nothing as the attorney-general of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, went to court to secure a kangaroo court order to stop the Senate of the national assembly from investigating who recalled, reinstated and double promoted Abdulrasheed Maina?

 “If President Buhari is ‘uncompromising in cleaning the rot Nigeria was consigned into pre-2015’ then how come the latest Corruption perception Index by Transparency international reveals that Nigeria is more corrupt today than she was in 2015, having moved 12 steps backwards in Transparency international’s Corruption perception Index, moving from 136 in 2014 under the PDP to 148 today?

 “Once more, we ask how uncompromising a president can be while he allows a minister accused of forgery to remain at her job?” Abubakar then alleged that Buhari is surrounded by officers who do not tell him the truth.

 “It seems that the president is surrounded by people who have become his echo chamber and are telling him what he desires to hear, otherwise no one in his proper mind would call an administration that elevated the price of petrol while at the same time paying greater subsidy at the product than the preceding government, which it accused of ‘subsidy scam’, uncompromising against corruption.

 “It is only common sense that if the rate of petrol increased by 68 per cent from N87 per litre to N145, then the cost of fuel subsidy have to also reduce, specially because the price of crude oil also decreased. however, by some odd mathematics, the Buhari administration pays a whopping N1.4 trillion on subsidy per annum according to the Minister of state for Petroleum.”