Former Acting National Vice-chairman(South-West) of the peoples democratic party(PDP), Chief Adedeji Doherty, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari may die with his war against corruption if institutions like the judiciary, ICPC, EFCC and the police are not strengthened.
The PDP chieftain stated this in an interview session he granted to The Sun News
His words, "In every society, there are a lot of corrupt people and I believe in Nigeria today, we can applaud the president on his efforts. However, I believe there should be a different direction in the manner the anti-corruption war is being fought, and I believe it is appearing gradually. The problem of corruption bothers everyone, but the net of the anti-corruption crusaders should be cast wider.
"Having said this, I must say that the issue of corruption has always been fought by past administrations, maybe in a different way. But the way they have fought it has yielded results and we have seen what the monies recovered were used for. During the Obasanjo regime, Yar’Adua and Jonathan, you have a list of people that were being accused of corruption. We had the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Joshua Dariye, Oransaye, James Ibori, amongst others, whom were victims of anti-corruption war in past administrations.
"And most of the convictions that are happening now are cases mentioned in the Jonathan administration. I haven’t seen any new case of conviction in the last one and a half years of this present administration. The thing that stands out is they were mainly from the ruling party then, and there was nobody from the opposition. Remember that it was the ruling party then that created these anti-corruption agencies: EFCC and ICPC.
"So, the instrument of attacking corruption and the processes were all created by the PDP; it is unjust to tag PDP as a party of corrupt people. The notion of PDP is we clean our house first before we clean others. But in this present administration, the reverse is the case.
"Government must work on strengthening institutions instead of personalities. The President’s body language toward corruption is good but if institutions like the judiciary, ICPC, EFCC and the police are not strengthened,we cannot sustain the fight against corruption. If the fight cannot sustain itself, the fight will die with President Buhari.
