A former Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC), Buba Galadima, has alleged that some relatives of President Muhammadu Buhari that were poor before his assumption of office in 2015 are now billionaires.
Galadima, who is a spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO), disclosed this on a Channels Television programme on Wednesday.
According to him, some of those Buhari’s relatives now own choice houses in the president’s hometown of Daura in Katsina State.
He made this known while arguing a point on the contentious Electoral Act Amendment Bill with an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Sen. Ayo Arise.
Arise argued that Nigerians believed the president’s explanations for not signing the bill because Buhari has “integrity”.
However, Galadima disputed the claims of Buhari’s integrity, saying that some of the president’s relatives and close associates had become billionaires within a rather short period.
He said, “I can’t see any integrity whatsoever on the side of Mr President. Which integrity? Somebody who condones corrupt people around him. We know of his relatives. We know of his friends who were bankrupt before 2015.
“We know of his relatives who took N2,000 transport money from us to go to Kaduna. Today, they are multibillionaires. They have assets all over the world. They have estates all over the world. I can show anybody that wants to know. So, the issue of integrity with this government is not an issue.
“Go to Daura GRA. When you go there, all the houses that make you feel as if you are in Dubai, London or Beirut were built by whom? To whom do those properties belong?
“So, please, I don’t want any All Progressives Congress man to talk to me about integrity. This should be the last time anybody engaging me in a debate would talk about integrity; I will take them to the marketplace.”
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