Posted on: 01:45 Fri, 22 Jan 2016



The presidency has declared that the
government of President Muhammadu Buhari
will not spare anyone who has a case to
answer, including his predecessor, Goodluck
Jonathan.

Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, told
an online medium on Thursday, when he visited
the newspaper’s office in Abuja, that Buhari has
“no accord” to shield any corrupt person from
prosecution.

“There is no accord. If the corruption fight
needs to get there (making Mr. Jonathan face
justice), it will get there,” Adesina said.

Several top officials who served under Jonathan,
as well as his political associates in the then
ruling Peoples Democratic Party, are currently
being tried, or investigated by the Economic and
Financial crimes Commission, for corruption.

A major case involves a former National
Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, accused of
diverting $2.1 billion arms money, and sharing
same to politicians and cronies of the former
president, which Dasuki says he was authorized
by Mr. Jonathan to do.

Those claims have raised questions whether
Jonathan, whom Buhari assured during transfer
of power in 2015, that he had nothing to fear,
would face prosecution should it be proven he
has a case to answer.

Buhari has also been accused of bias against
the PDP and the allegations gained gained
momentum last week after his associate and
party member, Jafaru Isa, was released by the
EFCC despite facing same allegation as Metuh,
the PDP spokesperson.

But Adesina denied the allegations against the
president, insisting that “There is no accord that
if corruption is proven, it will not be tried, With
this president, nobody will be protected. And I
underscore it, if it needs to get anywhere, it will
get there.”

He emphasized that there was no accord prior
to the March 2015 presidential election that
Jonathan would not be made to face trial if
corruption allegation is proven against him.

Adesina denied Buhari’s involvement in the
release of Isa after the APC member reportedly
returned N100 million out of N170 million he
was accused of unlawfully receiving from
Dasuki.

If the President had wanted to protect him, “he
would not have been arrested in the first place”,
Adesina said.

He said investigations into other sectors, such
as banking, and petroleum, would soon start.