Promise by the president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu to fight corruption is an assault on Nigerians, according to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
On Thursday, Tinubu who is expected to take over power from the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari in a few weeks said in Port Harcourt, Rivers state during a project commissioning visit that he will fight corruption when he assumed office.
While commissioning the magistrate courts built by Governor Nyesom Wike, the former Lagos state governor said judges are not expected to fight corruption in ‘squalor’, noting that war against graft will be one of the policy thrust of his administration.
He is billed to be sworn in on May 29.
Reacting, the opposition party said Nigerians cannot expect Tinubu to fight corruption because of his antecedents.
A corrupt Tinubu cannot fight corruption, the PDP said.
Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, told journalists in Abuja that the President-elect was not competent to speak on corruption, describing Tinubu’s comments as “ludicrous”.
Ologunagba said “It is ludicrous that an individual who has been widely alleged to be an enabler and beneficiary of corruption can attempt to put himself forward to Nigerians as a champion of anti-corruption. Of course, corruption cannot fight corruption.
“The PDP and indeed all sensible Nigerians are alarmed, scandalised and embarrassed by the recent claim by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the inauguration of some judiciary projects in Rivers State that he will fight corruption in the country.
“This statement by Senator Tinubu is completely sacrilegious and an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians.”
Tinubu has denied allegations of corruption against him, and has not been convicted of graft.
