Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has raised fresh allegations over
alleged plot to arrest former President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar, Senate President Bukola Saraki, among others.
Frank, who raised the concern in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, accused the current administration of penciling down
Obasanjo, Atiku, Saraki and others for arrest and detention ahead of the 2019 general
election in the name of fighting corruption.
Frank also hinged his fears on a statement credited
to President Muhammadu Buhari that he would jail some Nigerians now that he is
back from 10-day leave.
President Buhari had reportedly told journalists in
an interview after his arrival in Abuja last Saturday that he would jail more
of the ‘thieves’ that brought economic problems to the country.
Frank said even before the president made it
public, sources had informed some opposition leaders how the presidency was
planning to arrest its perceived political enemies.
He considered the president’s statement as a threat
to Nigerians, calling on the president to look inward within his administration
if he is looking for looters to jail.
According to Frank, President Buhari has returned
to continue persecution of his political opponents and selective fight against
corruption.
"I want to tell you Mr. President that you are
presiding over the worst and most corrupt administration ever. If you really
want to fight corruption, why not start from your kitchen cabinet and the
leadership of APC?
"Nigerians and international community are
fully aware that all you have been doing is not fighting corruption but
fighting your perceived political enemies,” he said.
Frank said Nigeria is currently in a democratic
system of government, which requires that a competent court must finds someone
guilty of any allegation before he or she can be sent to prison.
While urging the president to fully imbibe
democratic culture, he said if the president carefully searches his government
with an open mind, "he will realise that he is surrounded by thieves.’’
Frank said the President Buhari, who doubles as the
Minister of Petroleum, had not made known to Nigerians the budget of his
Ministry, let alone how much the country had generated from the sales of oil
daily since his assumption of office three years ago.
He also reminded the president that Nigerians had not
forgotten the $43million that was found in Ikoyi house, challenging him to make
public the report of a panel of enquiry set up in the same direction.
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