Abdullahi Adamu, the senator representing Nasarawa west, under the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, says Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria should have jailed Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria.
Adamu, who is a former governor of Nasarawa state, said this in an interview with journalist on Monday, February 19, 2018.
Reacting to the letter Obasanjo wrote to Buhari asking him not to seek re-election next year, the lawmaker stated that the former ex-president does not have the moral standing to give such advice.
“Chief Obasanjo said President Buhari is selective in his anti-corruption war. I agree with him because if the president were not selective, Chief Obasanjo himself would be in the dock today on trial on charges of corruption arising from the corrupt practices in the pursuit of his third term gambit in the national assembly in 2006,” Adamu said.
“ Obasanjo knows, as well as I and other leading members of the PDP, that he badly wanted it and initiated the process of constitutional amendment. He bribed each member of the national assembly who signed to support the amendment, with the whopping sum of N50million.
“The fresh mint money was taken in its original boxes presumably from the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria and distributed among the legislators.
“The money was not his, and it was not appropriated by the national assembly, as required by law. I, therefore, agree that in failing to make former President Obasanjo account for the money, President Buhari is waging his anti-corruption war selectively.
“Nor should we forget that President Buhari has also not bothered to interrogate Obasanjo’s role in the Halliburton scandal for which some Americans are cooling their heels in jail. Perhaps President Buhari might wish to look at the Siemens affairs in which the Obasanjo administration was indicted,” he added.
Adamu also noted that Obasanjo has been attacking his successors since he left office as a military ruler.
“Since he left office on October 1, 1979, to local and international applause, Obasanjo has systematically sought to undermine every federal administration after him. He has today set up himself as the moral conscience of the nation,” he said.
“Perhaps, part of the reason is that before leaving office in 2007, his party, the PDP, conferred on him the titles of Maker of Modern Nigeria and Father of the Nation. Such titles do have a heady way of making a man seeing his head bedecked in the halos of self-righteousness,” he said.
