Anti – corruption efforts of President Mohammdu Buhari yesterday got the backing of a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, but with an advice that the President should not be selective in fighting the menace.
Speaking with news men in Osogbo, Chief Sola Olowoye, a PDP chieftain from Osun State, said corruption was closed to being legalised with the plundering of public funds by many public office holders from the inception of the present republic.
Olowoye feared the trend was becoming worrisome, as younger Nigerians were, instead of avoiding people with questionable wealth, and celebrate, though poor, but honest people, were beginning to see looting of public wealth as only means of amassing ing wealth.
He stressed that a more “forceful fight against the menace of corruption” remains the only way out for the country in dire need of new direction.
Olowoye said: “To serve as deterrent and stop Nigerians from adopting corruption as a way of life, all former governors, ministers, heads of ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, whether in the All Progressives Congress, APC, PDP or any other party should be investigated.
“Regardless of where they come from, whether Daura, Kaduna, Lagos, Ogun or Rivers, Buhari should not spare anyone found to have stolen from public coffers.”
He charged Nigerians to be vigilant and provide security agencies with useful information that can help investigators recover the stolen funds, saying high level of poverty in the country can only be checked, when members of the public are alive to their responsibilities and the leaders are truthful in fighting corruption.
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