A retired Lieutenant General, Jerry Useni, has said that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari will eventually extend the present fight on corruption to other past administrations, especially that of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
Recall that many officials in the administration of immediate-past President Goodluck Jonathan are presently facing trial in connection with alleged misappropriation of $2.1 billion arms procurement funds.
Useni, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and military governor of the Old Bendel State, said it was high time the administration of Obasanjo was probed, adding that the former president introduced corruption into the National Assembly by doling out huge sums to the legislators to secure a third term in office, a move which failed.
According to Useni, who also represented Plateau South in the Senate, Obasanjo “brought corruption to the National Assembly with the way he was giving out money to senators especially when he wanted to go for third term. He spent a lot of money he can’t account for.”
He added that, “What Buhari is doing now, is like what Awolowo said when he was Minister of Finance under General Gowon and the government then put up a probe and wanted to go backward to past government. But Awolowo said no; new logs go on top of old ones, to get to the old ones; you must remove the new ones first.
“That is what Buhari is doing now, trying to clear the new logs so that he can get access to the old ones; when he clears the new ones and gets access to the old ones, the case of Obasanjo will come up. So he has no excuse at all to say such a thing because if there is any corruption at all in the National Assembly, he was the cause.”