From Our Correspondent
With the plethora of unresolved corruption allegations hanging on his neck, the Democratic Front (TDF) has asked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, not to raise accusations of corruption on others.
TDF made this observation in a statement signed by its Chairman Danjuma Mohammed and Secretary Wale Adedayo and emailed to TheNewszenith on Friday.
It dismissed pontification by Atiku on the proprietary or otherwise of the process of awarding the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway contract.
The group was surprised that someone entangled in lack of transparency in selling the nation’s priced assets was accusing others.
“He may assume that everyone would toe the same line taken by his government in squandering the national wealth.
“It interestingly beats all imagination that a man under overwhelming accusations could find the moral courage to pontificate on the process of the award of contract.
“As usual, he misrepresented facts and sought to turn black to white. This is in an attempt to reverse the gains achieved by the current Administration.
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“His misrepresentations over the coastal highway project are delusional. It is an insult to public sensibility and this is clear evidence that corruption is fighting back,” the group stated.
TDF noted that the former vice-president featured repeatedly in cases of corruption that directly affected the nation’s economy.
“Recall that sometime in August 2011, Nigerians were informed through a Senate public hearing, on how Atiku Abubakar aided his cohorts and fronts to ring-fence over 70 per cent of the Federal Government’s assets.
“He did this in a brazen daylight robbery, he supervised in the name of privatization.”
It also gave an insight into Atiku’s activities as head of the privatisation process in the Obasanjo years.
“Nigerians will not forget in a hurry how Atiku took undue advantage of the position as the Chairman of the National Council of Privatisation (NCP). He sold major public investments under questionable circumstances,” it noted.
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