CHAIRMAN of the Patriots, Prof Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has dismissed the war on corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, saying it is a hidden plan to islamise Nigeria.
Nwabueze said that the appointment of northerners as heads of all major security agencies and other strategic positions, including the Military, Police, Customs, Secret Services, among others was part of his northernisation agenda for the country, noting that old age was affecting his mobilisation of Nigerians to support the eradication of corruption.
He then called for the amendment of the 1999 Constitution to ensure an age limit for the presidency.
Prof. Ben Nwabueze
These were contained in his statement entitled, “Whether the eradication of corruption is the motivating object of the on-going war against it.”
According to him, there should be an age limit to which nobody should contest elections just as there was for non-elective positions or civil service.
Nwabueze said that Buhari, 75, made 15 strategic and lopsided appointments of northerners in the Army, Police, Department of State Services, the National Intelligence Agency, NIA and other arms of government against other sections of the country, hence the cynicism by Nigerians about the motive of the on-going war on corruption.
According to him, northerners were occupying the offices of the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Director- Generals of DSS, NIA, Inspector General of Police, Chief of Staff to the President, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Nigeria Ports Authority, Controller General of Customs, Immigration, Minister of Internal Affairs, National Security Adviser, Minister of Petroleum, 15 out of the 22 Assistant Inspectors General of Police among other sensitive positions.
He said: “The 15 appointments listed above are strategic appointments as they relate to the prosecution of the war against corruption. “The
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