By Jerry Emmanson
A human right group, Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CSJET) has condemned attempts to drag the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari into kogi state Politics, saying it is a clear indication that corrupt individuals who are not pleased with the President Buhari’s anti corruption war are trying to get at him through his spouse.
The group however warned that Nigerians have become wiser and will not allow those it described as desperate and corrupt politicians in Kogi state to undermine the anti corruption war.
The group’s reaction is coming after a syndicated publication across several online media alleged that the wife of the President brokered a deal to buy the Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunaljudgement for the Governor of Kogi State, Mr Yahaya Bello.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Executive secretary of CSJET, Comrade Ikpa Isaac said it is obvious that the accusation marks a new low in the depth to which these corrupt people have sunken, adding that the politicians should resolve their internal issues and desist from dragging the name of the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari into the state’s Politics.
According to him, Mrs Aisha Buhari is not from Kogi State and therefore has no cause to want to influence the outcome of the Election Petition Tribunal, stressing that if she did not climb the campaign podium at the heat of elections why would she now breach protocols to interfere with the judiciary.
Isaac said the judiciary is pivotal to the anti-corruption fight of the current administration, so attempting to rubbish the honourable justices is a disservice to the great men working to midwife a reborn Nigeria.
He said had this people crying wolf have any genuine evidence, they should have approached the anti-graft agencies and table their facts for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or any other agency to act.
“Instead, despite the compelling evidence they claim to have, the groups fronting for whoever is behind this latest attempt at frustrating the anti-graft crusade is still at the stage of threatening to report to the National Judicial Council (NJC). People with facts do not threaten. They take action,” he said.
He said, “We therefore want to warn the persons behind this abominable campaign that Kogi is just one of Nigeria’s 36 states. The politicians in that state must therefore learn to treat their internal state issues as what they are. Local. Internal. They should not attempt to nationalise their internal state politics simply to curry attention.
“In case they are ignorant of the implication of their actions, we have as Nigerians sacrificed a lot to get the anti-corruption fight to the stage where it is presently and we will not take kindly to anyone attempting to undermine its credibility by trying to knowingly or unknowingly rope the wife of the President into the politics of a state she does not even hail from.”
