Femi Aribisala Blast President Buhari Saying, ''It is Senseless For Him to Make An Attempt Fighting Corruption With Corruption.''

      Fellowship Coordinator, Healing Wings, Chapel of Faith and controversial columnist, Mr Femi Aribisala blasted President Buhari that he is fighting PDP as against corruption which he claims to be fighting.

       

   He said, “Before the 2015 elections, we did not have any...

party presenting us with an anti-corruption mandate. The All Progressives Congress, APC, can be called a makeover of the PDP and since they moved over, they are no more corrupt because they are now in APC. So as far as I am concerned, there was no mandate to fight corruption.''

   The institutional fight against corruption that has taken place to the extent that it has, took place under PDP. The institutional structures, even the ones that the present government is relying on are PDP structures”, Aribisala stated.

   “You cannot fight corruption with corruption. And corruption is more than just the stealing of money. If you disobey the rule of law, you have corrupted the system. If you create an avenue where you have a big margin between the official foreign exchange rate and the parallel market rate, there’s gonna be corruption. If you have children of the rich getting into the CBN on nepotistic grounds, the corruption is still with you.

“If you have a budget that is padded left right and centre, and after this was revealed you passed it and say only a small amount changed in it, and we do not know what is in the new budget, you can’t say you are against corruption. There is no transparency in any of these things.”

 

   “If President Buhari really meant to fight corruption, he will not form an alliance with the people who he despised before. So today, I don’t know who is fighting the corruption.''

 

   “We have to make up our minds if we really want to deal with the question of corruption. If we want to deal with the question of corruption, Nigerians themselves must insist on it and we have to deal with it at the institutional level.''   

 

    “In ten months of Buhari’s government, there has been no institutional structure that has been laid against corruption. We have simple had media circuses accusing people of corruption.''

 

     Mr Aribisala made this declaration during a roundtable discussion which was organised by the Department of Jurispudence and International Law tagged “Winning the War Against Corruption” and which had in attendance keynote speakers like; Prof Itse Sagay, Mr Femi Aribisala, Mr Femi Falana (represented by Wahab Shittu) and Dr Oby Ezekwesili.