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Buhari is corrupt, nepotistic – Junaid Mohammed
“Now with this bloody mess and this disarray and terrible scandal, how can Buhari hope to keep the country in check, and fight corruption and the terrorists?
“It can’t be done; because to fight corruption, you must be above board. You must be absolutely in the clear. You don’t go underground to appoint your nephews and say you are being smart. He is just being smart by half.
“These are the core problems of Buhari and not the National Assembly. The National Assembly can be dealt with if he is absolutely above board, and if they know they have nothing on him or his nephews, cousins, and many of his relations who are now institutionalised in the government and in the most important part of government, the Presidency.
“And that explains some of the statements [former President Olusegun] Obasanjo has been making, metaphorical statements.
“He said corruption always begins in the Presidency. He was referring to Buhari’s presidency.
“Because when Obasanjo was in power himself and Atiku (Abubakar), they were accused of being corrupt and the world media said corruption always began in the presidency. So nobody should fool us.
Alleged sleaze in Buhari’s kitchen cabinet
Mohammed stressed that Buhari is not corrupt but many of his relations are suspects in corruption scandals.
“Only four days ago (June 20), Sahara Reporters – and it has not been denied – said a company called Sahara Energy is lifting crude oil in the name of both Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari.
“What is interesting about the company is that it used to be owned by the boyfriends of Diezani [Alison-Maduekwe, former petroleum minister] and she used to give them very generous crude oil lifting contracts.
“Sadly, in this government, which is supposed to be anti anything that Diezani stands for, we have Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari being mentioned by an internet newspaper as using the same company in lifting crude oil.
“Now the question is who is fooling who? Are we being told that Diezani’s former boyfriends, Omokore and Aluko, have moved on, and in their place is Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari? What is happening?
Mohammed also wondered why Buhari despite the corruption scandal of the last administration, allowed Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefile, who was a member of the last administration, to remain in office.
“And throughout this serious scandals of corruption, the source of the monetary scandal has been only two places.
“One is the Central Bank because it was from the Central Bank the money was being taken either to the office of the National Security Adviser [Sambo Dasuki] or to PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) headquarters or to certain individuals.
“But it was always from the Central Bank.
“Buhari himself said at the beginning of his term that he had evidence and knows there was a time when [Emefiele] picked a piece of paper and wrote and instructed that N14 billion should be withdrawn from the Central Bank, and the N14 billion was withdrawn.
“Yet that man, under Buhari is still the governor of the Central Bank. Buhari has not sacked him, and Buhari is now more than one year in office. The question is that who is the power behind the governor of the Central Bank?
“The other source of money is the money from the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) because the NNPC has several accounts, most of them in foreign currencies: dollars, euros, yuan, pounds sterling.
“After Diezani left, I don’t know on whose advice Buhari picked some innocuous, incompetent, irresponsible Igbo man from Delta State [Ibe Kachikwu] and appointed him minister of state for petroleum. But in actual fact, he runs the ministry on day-to-day basis.
“In addition, this man was also appointed by the same Buhari, who is supposed to know the industry well, as the managing director of the NNPC. “And because Nigerians don’t know or don’t care to know or maybe they are not interested, the position of the MD of the NNPC is a civil service appointment for technocrats and what have you.
“But a ministerial appointment, whether a senior or junior minister, is a political appointment.
“How Buhari decided in his arrogance to combine the job of the MD and the minister in one man whom nobody has ever heard of and gave him those positions, is a mystery to us. Who again is the power behind this man?
“To add insult to injury, the Igbo now started shouting that they have not been given what they call lucrative appointments.
“They have the Central Bank, where most of the money come from, they have the minister of petroleum, and then the MD of the NNPC.
“They have their normal slots of ministerial appointments. And they are still shouting that they have not been given lucrative appointments.
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