Stop making mockery of fight against corruption, Wike tells FG

PORT HARCOURT - Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has rebuked the federal government for allegedly making a mockery of the fight against corruption, describing the war on graft as pretentious and intended to silence the opposition in the country. Yesterday, the governor asked how politicians, who peeled from the opposition PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, suddenly became too clean for the EFCC Commission on Economic and Financial Crimes to investigate

He said that since President Muhammadu Buhari took office, the only corrupt Nigerians known to his government were supposedly politicians who chose to remain in PDP. He said Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki was harassed at the same time by the Federal Government because he challenged the office against the political settlement of his APC party. He said: "How can the Federal Government justify the situation where former PDP public office holders are continuously harassed, persecuted and prosecuted on corruption charges by the EFCC, while saving the other members who deserted APC of investigations and similar treatments except the pure vendetta against Saraki for daring to challenge the office of the Senate Presidency against the desire of his party's heads? Wike urged the church to condemn what he called the anti-corruption war of the federal government adding: "People say that power of any kind corrupts, but political power can be more vicious if it is exercised without control and in the contempt of the government. democratic norms. "While we all support the highly praised but pretense fight of the federal government against corruption, it is obviously bad to fight corruption with corruption and double discourse or on the side of the rule of law, disobeying court orders and blackmailing "What happened to the case of the detainees for printing false ballots with genuine INEC serial numbers to be used to prepare the legislative elections of December 2016? "