NCP officials tackle Buhari on anti-corruption war, campaign promises

 By Emmanuel Udom

The Chairman of Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organisation, Comrade Ayodele Akele on Thursday in Lagos, literarily took President Muhammadu Buhari to the cleaners, over his on-going anti-corruption war and campaign promises to Nigerians.

Speaking during the six year anniversary lecture of the demise of Gani Fawehinmi, founder of the National Conscience Party, (NCP), Akele argued that the anti-corruption war of Buhari is being wagged only on the pages of newspapers.

His words: contrary to the body language and recent utterances of Buhari, who claims to be Mr Clean and Mr Integrity, the president has not constitutional backing to jail any corrupt leader, since he is not a court.

Speaking further, Akele disclosed that members of the National Conscience Party across the country will continue to tackle the All Progressives Congress-led government of Buhari, who promised to crush Boko Haram in two months, even as emerging indices showed that the president has not capacity to flush out terrorist in Nigerian before December, this year.

He called on the president to fulfill all the campaign promises made to Nigerians, such as the feeding of all school children, the crushing of terrorists and the delivery of democracy dividends to the citizens of our country without delay.

Meanwhile, Acting Chairman of the National Conscience Party,(NCP), in Lagos, Fatai Ibu-Owo during the lecture reminded the president that the late Gani Fawehinmi, founder of NCP  outlined a 10-point poverty abolition agenda for the country.

Ibu-Owo mentioned the points as: employment care, food care, health, care, housing care, education care, water care, electricity care, transportation care, telecommunication care and security care.

The Lagos NCP leader further disclosed that all over the world, good governance means being with the people, knowing their pains, abolishing their poverty and solving their problems.

However, in Nigeria, once politicians have either been elected or rigged into power, they govern for themselves and not for the people, who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of democracy dividends in the first place.