The Olugbon of Orile-Igbon and vice chairman of Oyo state Council of Obas and Chiefs, Oba Francis Olushola Alao, has faulted a statement credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that most Nigerian political leaders are corrupt.
The Olugbon said in a statement he personally signed and made available Wednesday that there is no way Chief Obasanjo can exclude himself from his statement that most Nigerian political leaders are corrupt.
He added that in aligning with Chief Obasanjo’s position, the former president should surrender himself to the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He said: “But he should also lead by example by submitting himself for incarceration as a leader of this generation of the so-called corrupt people. There is no way he can exclude himself.
“For instance, during his tenure as president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, Chief Obasanjo’s administration allegedly spent billions of US dollars to fix the country’s power supply challenges. Yet there is nothing to show for it.
“The Obasanjo Presidential Library can be said to have been allegedly largely funded with proceeds of corruption. So, excluding himself from those he described as corrupt leaders is nothing but grandstanding.
“Chief Obasanjo cannot wash his hands clean of all activities that brought Nigeria to this undesirable state. Doing so will amount to a pot calling kettle black. Chief Obasanjo should stop parading himself all over the world as a saint when he is one of the leaders that steered the ship of Nigeria since 1976 till date. He is inclusive of the 90 per cent of Nigerian leaders that should be in prison for corruption.
“Let him go and surrender himself before the EFCC as an example. Nigerians should be watchful of Chief Obasanjo.
“In his eight-year tenure, he failed to reconstruct Lagos-Abeokuta and Lagos-Ibadan roads, leaving them as death traps for motorists. Nigerians will continue to be grateful to his successors- former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari -for fixing Lagos-Ibadan Expressway which had sent many citizens to early grave before their time.”
