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- Senator Yisa Braimoh said that Buhari, missed the point when he accused the PDeP of institutionalising corruption.
- Also stated that Buhari’s claim that PDP institutionalised corruption in Nigeria is not correct, because individuals were the ones responsible for corruption, not party platforms.
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Senator Yisa Braimoh has said that a former military Head-of-State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, missed the point when he accused the Peoples Democratic Party of institutionalising corruption.
Brimoh, who is a member of the Nigerian Senators’ Forum, represented Edo North from 2007 – 2011.
He said the former military ruler, who is now a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, was not putting the national scourge in its true perspective because corruption was not about political platforms.
Braimoh said this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
According to him, Buhari’s claim that PDP institutionalised corruption in Nigeria is not correct, because individuals were the ones responsible for corruption, not party platforms.
He said, “General Buhari missed the point when he accused PDP of institutionalising corruption in Nigeria, PDP did not institutionalise corruption. Rather, successive PDP administrations at the federal level have been fighting the corruption scourge, which individuals and politicians in public and private offices since the military era have deepened through their greed and deep-seated acquisitive tendencies.
“I am not surprised that Buhari would re-echo the opposition’s mantra whenever it is convenient to demonise the PDP even when it is quite clear that those politicians in the PDP who used their offices to corruptly enrich themselves are today in the same party with him.”
Braimoh said it was indeed paradoxical that Buhari, who presented himself to the world as a person who hated corruption, would gladly cohabit with corrupt former ministers, serving and former governors in the APC in a bid to wrest power from President Goodluck Jonathan.
The Senator wondered if the General could vouch for the integrity of “those questionable characters around him in the APC.”
He said, “If he can do so, he will sadly be putting his integrity to question and if he cannot vouch for their integrity, why would he be in bed with them?
“Is it for the sake of using them to achieve his quest for presidential power? Is that not in it dubious and corrupt?”
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