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Buhari Under Pressure To Stop Anti-graft War- Osinbajo

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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said President Muhammadu Buhari is currently under intense pressure to stop his administration’s ongoing anti-corruption war.

Although he said the pressure was being mounted by the Nigerian elite, he did not name those behind the campaign.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, on Thursday, the Vice-President spoke while granting audience to a delegation from the Muslim Congress of Nigeria at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Osinbajo added that those mounting pressure on Buhari to “slow down” the anti-corruption fight cut across tribal and religious lines.

He stated, “We get regular messages from some Nigerian elite saying ‘cool down.’

“It is a very strange morality that some of those people have, (which is) very complicated, and cutting across all tribes and religious differences.”

Osinbajo said the position of those putting pressure on the government was that “it (corruption) is not a big deal.”

He disclosed that those in that category had been advising the government that it should merely ask the looters of public treasury to return the money and go free.

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Anti-Graft War: Adesina, Metuh Intensify Verbal Battle

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National Publicity Secretary of the main opposition party, Olisa Metuh yesterday sustained his verbal spat with presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, when he accused him of being ignorant of politics and governance. Adesina  quickly replied Metuh that he’s a broken record, which he (Adesina) has thrown away.

Metuh looked for trouble, in a statement by his special assistant, Richard Ihediwa, where he accused Adesina of ignoring  the party’s observation that no former APC  governor has been subjected to interrogation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under the present administration.

In his reaction, Adesina said:  “Metuh is sounding like a broken record. It’s the same thing that he says all the time.

“But let me assure Nigerians that the President has always maintained that even when it affects APC members, the person concerned must go and defend himself.

“I think what is of interest to Nigerians is ‘did these people commit the crime?’ not whether it is one-sided or not.”

“It is unfortunate that in trying to wear his master the garb of a  democrat, Mr. Adesina has instead muddled up and bungled his assignment  with his arrogant posturing on important national issues. Whereas this media aide may have done well in the confines of his newsroom as a media professional, he has so far succeeded in making a mockery of the office
of a spokesperson of the President of a country like Nigeria.

“Our final take therefore is that the Presidency must note that Nigerians are still waiting for a proper response on the issues raised instead of invectives from an aide who apparently talks before he thinks.”

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Presidency Dismisses Metuh’s Lopsided Anti- Graft War Allegations

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The Presidency has reacted swiftly to the allegation made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

On the allegation of witch-hunting its members, the President’s Adviser on Media, Mr Femi Adesina, said that ordinarily he would not want to comment on such because they were comments coming from a political party and response are better from the APC leadership.

He, however, said that concerning the President, it was untrue for Mr Olisa Metuh to claim that the President’s anti-corruption war was one-sided.

According to him, “Mr Olisa Metuh is sounding like a broken record. It’s the same thing that he says all the time. But let me assure Nigerians that the President has always maintained that even when it affects APC members, the person concerned must go and defend himself.”

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Olisa Metuh, had said at a news conference in Abuja, that unfolding events have confirmed the party’s position that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is only using the anti-corruption posture as a tool to witch-hunt PDP members and perceived political opponents of the APC government.

He stated that no member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), despite the public petitions of corruption and squandering of state funds, has been invited, questioned or arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

But Mr Adesina wondered why the issue was not whether the people facing the EFCC actually committed the crime but Mr Metuh is saying that it is one-sided.

“I think what is of interest to Nigerians is ‘did this people commit the crime?’ not whether it is one-sided,” he said.

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