The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to stop at throwing a jibe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for spending $16bn on power projects during his administration.
It said the President but must go a step further by instituting a public probe of the power spending and other expenditure by the former President.
CNPP was reacting to comment credited to President Buhari that despite the huge expenditure, there was no corresponding power supply to Nigerians.
Buhari had while hosting members of the Buhari Support Organisation led by the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday wondered what former president Olusegun Obasanjo achieved after spending huge amount on power.
Obasanjo through his Media Aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, had fired back, saying that he was ready for probe over the Power Project.
The CNPP Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu in a statement noted that one of the ways to give the anti-graft position of the President Buhari government a meaning was when he openly probes the Obasanjo administration.
“We expect President Buhari to institute a full scale public inquiry into the spending on power by former President Obasanjo’s administration. This will give teeth to his anti-graft war,” the statement said.
“His administration’s concentration on one particular administration, while leaving the ones before the former President Goodluck Jonathan government has been the reason for our doubt of the sincerity in his war against corruption.
“Although President Buhari did not mention any name, he was widely quoted as saying that a former Nigerian leader was bragging at a time that his administration spent $16bn on power sector, yet there was nothing to show for it.
“Therefore, if the President knows what we don’t know, it is time to prove to Nigerians that he is really fighting corruption.
“We now call on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately begin the probe and assure all Nigerians that he is not selective on his anti-graft war.
“Mr. President must equally probe members of his own cabinet fingered in corruption cases to make his war on corruption total”, the CNPP said.
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