Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said the presidency’s response to allegations against the chief of staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, over the scandalous activities of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC and its director general, Adeniyi Adeyemi, is self-indicting.
Atiku disclosed this in a statement on Thursday by his spokesperson Phrank Shaibu.
Recall that the presidency, in a statement by his presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga, cleared Gbajabiamila on allegations of bribery of N400 million by Adeyemi.
According to the presidency, Gbajabiamila does not get an appointment.
Reacting, Atiku declared that the presidency’s desperate attempt to explain away the scandal surrounding the so-called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC has inadvertently exposed a far more disturbing reality under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
He said the response by presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga was not a defense of the government but a public confession of institutional collapse.
According to him, the allegations are too monumental to be ignored, demanding an urgent probe of all parties involved, including the Central Bank of Nigeria and the National Assembly.
“There is an African proverb that says that ‘the man who points at the moon should not have blood on his finger.’ A government cannot claim to be exposing fraud while simultaneously struggling to explain how that same fraud found its way into the very heart of the Nigerian state.
“What the presidency intended as damage control has become self-indictment. Rather than extinguish the fire, it has illuminated how deeply the
