People Accused Of Stealing ₦500 Billion Taxpayers’ Money Are Presiding Over Our Destiny – Buba Galadima Blasts APC, NASS

A leading figure in the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has faulted the All Progressives Congress-led administration and the National Assembly of Nigeria over what he described as selective prosecution in advancing the Electoral Act amendment bill.

Galadima, while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, questioned the honesty of lawmakers behind the bill.

He accused the APC-led government of being afraid of facing a free and fair election, despite having a majority of Governors in the country.

Galadima also questioned the justification for selective opposition, saying the APC is using government institutions to stifle opposition, free speech and jail people, citing the detention of former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai and ex-Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.

The NNPP chieftain further dared members of the ruling party to swear by the Quran or the Bible if they have not committed worse crimes than Malami and El-Rufai.

He said, “Technically, the entire law itself was an amendment to another law. What stops them from amending this one also? And we are angry. We shouldn’t be the only people angry. You should be more concerned.

“Because if things happen, I don’t think you can afford running from this place, a rich fellow doing in Kwara. You can’t do that. So, we are trying to save the country.

“These people in the 10th Assembly and the government of APC, they don’t even know that by their actions, they hurt themselves. They make themselves hated by citizens, groups, and other political interests in the country. They say they have 32 governors, or 36, I don’t know how many out of 36 they have and they are afraid to face a free and fair election.

“If they have performed, what stops them from naturally improving on what they had before? They are so jittery, so confused, so afraid that they have to coerce people by using institutions of government, stifle opposition, stifle free speech, jail people, send people to prison. They think they will be the last to govern in this country.

“You are not aware that in Kano yesterday there was a massive demonstration by young men and women who accused the Director of State Security in Kano of aligning with and becoming a bodyguard for the governor of Kano? Don’t you know that El-Rufai is in prison? Don’t you know that Malami is in prison? Which of them can swear by the Quran or the Bible that they haven’t done worse things than Malami and El-Rufa did?

“I’m not saying the government is wrong for prosecuting Malami and El-Rufai, but why are they selective? Some of those who presided over the amendment of this bill are accused of stealing 500 billion naira of Nigerian taxpayers’ money, and they are presiding over our destiny.”