A group Federation of Progressive Youths (FPY), has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of focusing on Christians and leaving out Muslim politicians in government’s anti-corruption war.
National President of FPY, Mr. Felix Afegbua alleged in a statement sent to Frontline News Online on Thursday, that the President is using the anti-graft war “to single out Christians for prosecution”.
In the statement titled “Our Case Against President Muhammadu Buhari’s Religiously Biased ‘Fight’ Against Corruption”, he insisted that the anti-corruption battle should be broad based
The statement read in part: “After a careful observation and deep thought, we have come to the firm conclusion, that the anti-corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari, is unabashedly and alarmingly, tilted against Christians in the country.
“It is very important for Nigerians and the International Community to take judicial notice of the sequence and direction of arraignments, arrests and prosecutions”.
Though the group warned that their position wasn’t to encourage elected Christians to steal public funds, it raised questions why Muslim former governors haven’t been jailed, while a number of Christian counterparts have are serving prison terms for corruption.
“Of all the jailed former Governors and the ones on the fast lane to prison, are all Christians. The likes of Rev. Jolly Nyame, Joshua Dariye and Orji Uzor Kalu, former Governors of Taraba, Plateau and Abia States respectively, are clear and alarming victims of this administrations shameful prosecutorial conduct, while another former Governor of Abia State, Theodore Ahamefule Orji is currently facing Buhari’s gulag over relatively lighter offences than the likes of Attahiru Bafarawa, Adamu Mu’azu and Danjuma Goje just as the case of severely tortured Delta State ex-Governor, James Ibori, is currently in the process of being exhumed, long after serving his jail term abroad”.
“While top Christians are languishing in different jails, the likes of Sule Lamido, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Danjuma Goje, Babangida Aliyu, Isa Yuguda, Ibrahim Shema, Attahiru Bafarawa, Moslem governors of Jigawa, Kano, Gombe, Niger, Bauchi, Katsina and Sokoto are walking paved streets, freely” the statement read.
Afegbua also observed that “While the cases of the likes of Sen. Jonah Jang, Sen. Gabriel Suswam, former Governors of Plateau and Benue States respectively, are regularly mentioned, these corrupt Moslem former Governors, are having fun in expensive hotels in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, unhindered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
“Our issue, is with the tendency to focus the hammer on a particular group of people or a particular religion, and vicariously, give the impression that the war is not against your favoured religion. The anti-corruption war has failed to impress, not because the accused Christians on trial are saints, but the because the prosecutor-in-chief, has ulterior motives, besides a seeming crusade, to cleanse the Augean Stable”.
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