Emmanuel Aziken
4 January 2009
Abuja — THE All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has dismissed the government's war against corruption as deceitful.National chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, in an interview, said the Yar'Adua administration would never be taken serious in its anti-graft war so long as it continued to harbour allegedly corrupt elements from the former administration.
Besides, Umeh expressed consternation that the Presidency had been shielded from the anti-graft war, noting that the present administration's war against graft was as selective as that of the immediate past administration. Umeh spoke against the background of the dismissal from the police of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the erstwhile chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Dismissing the administration's anti-graft stance, Umeh said: "We still do not take the government serious on the war against corruption in this country. The EFCC has been very selective in its approach to fighting corruption. Any war against corruption that excludes the presidency is lip service.
"A lot of the powerful aides of the president were involved in the huge scale corruption under Obasanjo and for one day none from the lot has been arraigned. So if the presidency is a sacred institution in the issue of fighting corruption in this country then it is all ruse. Until they begin to carry the war to all departments of government in Nigeria we will never take them serious."
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