He pointed out Tinubu’s recent appointment of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda as National Chairman of the APC as proof.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has slammed President Bola Tinubu.
According to him, Tinubu plans to win the 2027 election through rigging.
He pointed out Tinubu’s recent appointment of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda as National Chairman of the APC as proof.
Chief Eze also noted that the sudden activation of EFCC’s attack mode against perceived political foes is highly condemnable and signposts an administration that is paranoid over the conduct of a credible, free and fair election come 2027 general elections.
In a statement released to the media on Wednesday, Eze stated unequivocally that none of what he described as the devious plots being adopted by the Tinubu administration to retain power will come to fruition.
“I wish to state that none of these acts, both unleashing the EFCC on opposition politicians and appointment of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda as the National Chairman of APC, so that he can manipulate INEC, will save Tinubu from relocating back to Lagos come 2027,” Eze said.
“The truth is that 2027 general elections are neither between APC and ADC nor any other political party, but emphatically between APC and Nigerians.
“With the level of hydra-headed socio-economic and political calamities that have befallen this country due to Tinubu’s inhumane, clueless and anti-people policies, I know Nigerians will do everything humanly possible to free themselves from the circle of deaths occasioned by maladministration.”
According to Eze, plans by the Tinubu government to intimidate the immediate Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), out of the coalition movement is an exercise in futility.
For Tinubu to go after Malami, one of late President Muhammadu Buhari’s trusted ministers, a few weeks after the burial of the former president, according to Eze, is a sign of ingratitude and obsession to hold on to power by all means without minding whose ox is gored.
“Report at my disposal is that Malami will be questioned over at least five suspicious transactions during his time in office as the AGF and Justice Minister,” Eze said.
“Five of the transactions under investigation are: The mysterious payment of $496 million to Global Steel Holdings Ltd (GSHL) as settlement for the termination of the Ajaokuta Steel concession nine years after the Indian company had waived all claims for compensation.
“His handling of the sale of assets worth billions of naira forfeited to the EFCC by politically exposed persons.
“His role in the $419 million judgment debt awarded to consultants who claimed to have facilitated the Paris Club refunds to the states.
“The strange agreement to pay Sunrise Power $200 million compensation in its dispute with the FG over the Mambilla power project; and the duplicated legal fees in the transfer of $321 million Abacha loot from Switzerland to Nigeria.”
The APC chieftain stated that in as much as he is not against prosecuting public officials who are suspected to have corruptly enriched themselves while in office, making such action selective and targeting politically exposed Nigerians in opposition, to say the least, is unacceptable and stands condemned.
“So, Tinubu wants Nigerians to believe and clap for him, that one of the former opposition governors serving presently in his administration as a minister is a saint, and has no skeleton in his cupboard?
“I make bold to state categorically that going after Buhari’s minister (Malami) is a deliberate but calculated plot to send warning signals to leading coalition movement politicians that nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be spared by Tinubu in a bid to retain power in 2027,” Eze said.
Eze contended that the strategy by sitting presidents to use security agencies like EFCC, DSS, Police, ICPC etc. to hound opposition politicians prior to elections has become old-fashioned and no longer dreaded because of its selective aura.
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