A former Chairman, Senate Committee on
Water Resources, Senator Joseph Waku, on Tuesday in Kaduna asked
President Muhammadu Buhari to either probe former President Olusegun
Obasanjo or forget about his current war against corruption in the
country.
He also predicted that without Buhari, the governing party was bound to lose the 2019 general election.
He said Nigerians would not take
President Buhari’s fight against corruption seriously if Obasanjo was
left untouched by anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission.
The 4th Republic Senator said he had
already told the President that Nigerians would only take his
ant-corruption seriously if the likes of Obasanjo, whom he claimed
introduced corruption to Nigeria, were probed.
Waku, in an interview with journalists
on the sideline at the ongoing Annual General Assembly of the Arewa
Consultative Forum on Tuesday in Kaduna, said, “Look, I am 70 years
old now and have been in this game for more than 50 years.
“Therefore, there is no way I can just
look at some totality of what people are saying about corruptionand
believe it as it has been reported to me. If I have an investigating
mechanism, I know that this accusation is real obviously.
“I have access to authority. I have
access to Mr. President. I told Mr. President that this corruption probe
of past regimes, if you don’t probe Obasanjo, then you haven’t done
anything yet. Corruption in Nigeria was introduced by Obasanjo.”
The APC chieftain insisted that without Buhari, the ruling party would lose the 2019 general election.
He said the party won the last election
because most of the politicians on the platform of the APC rode on
Buhari’s honesty to win the 2015 election, noting that the party
wouldn’t have won that election in the first place.
