Not Sacking Akpabio And Pondei Means Buhari Supports Corruption – Fayose

Ex-Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio.

He recently revealed that the President also has to dismiss the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebradikumo Pondei to prove to the citizens that he is against corruption.

According to him, Akpabio and Pondei have been celebrating the success of their National Assembly drama with hot pepper soup and the president cannot continue to treat looting of public treasury as a family affair.

He added that if PMB keeps the likes of Akpabio and Prof Pondei in his government, he would only be enforcing the conclusion that he supports corruption.

“Akpabio and Pondei have been celebrating The success of their National Assembly drama with hot pepper soup.”

“With this level of fraud exposed in NDDC, Buhari must sack Akpabio now.

“The President can’t continue to treat looting of public treasury as family affair and his fight against corruption as instrument of persecution against opposition figures.

“By keeping in his govt the likes of Akpabio and the NDDC MD, Prof Pondei, who went about celebrating the success of their National Assembly drama with hot pepper soup and assorted drinks, the President will only be reinforcing the conclusion that he supports corruption.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.