Buhari won’t help arms deal suspects – Presidency
The Presidency said one of the quickest ways for President Muhammadu Buhari to lose confidence in anyone is for that person to be tarred with corruption charges.
Presidential spokesperson Femi Adesina in his Facebook post said Buhari’s anticorruption war knows no friend or enemy.
Adesina was responding to the arrest of Buhari’s political associate and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Brigadier-General Lawal Ja’afaru Isa, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which is probing the $2.1 arms purchase scam.
He said Buhari will not help anyone proven guilty of corruption charges, no matter how close such a person is to him.
“It means that in this corruption fight, no friend, no foe. One of the quickest ways for President Buhari to lose confidence in anybody is for that person to be tarred with the brush of corruption, and if proven to be true, you are on your own,” he said.
All those who said Buhari is selective don’t know him, he said. “We know how much he detests corruption, and if any case is proven against anybody, no matter how close the person is, no matter how high ranking, that person will answer for it,” he said.
On negotiation with Boko Haram to release the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, the presidential aide said Buhari’s administration was being careful in order not to be swindled like former President Jonathan’s government.
“We need to know a little bit of what happened behind the scenes, between the last government and some people masquerading as the leadership of Boko Haram who wanted to get the Chibok girls released. They actually turned it into a franchise. It became a commercial thing and they got money, possibly in millions of dollars, only for government to discover it had been swindled,” he said.