The spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Marketing campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s management of corruption and incompetence, bringing up allegations by way of Alwan Hassan that ministers pay billions of naira to safe appointments and would possibly prioritise recouping their investments over the welfare of Nigerians.
Recall that Alwan Hassan, in an interview on Rise up Information, alleged that some ministers pay billions of naira to safe appointments and due to this fact search to recoup the cash, claiming the observe predates the APC-led management.”
Alternatively, Hassan clarified that he used to be now not referring particularly to ministers serving below the APC-led govt, pronouncing the observe predated the birthday party.
Reacting to the allegation, Okonkwo argued that the declare raised questions on corruption throughout the Tinubu management, bringing up the constitutional roles of the President and Senate within the appointment of ministers.
“Alwan got here in right here and stated it obviously that ministers—and I’m speaking about paraphrasing it—ministers in Tinubu’s regime pay billions to be appointed. And if you happen to permit them, they must recoup the billions ahead of they take into accounts the folks. And he stated this is why Tinubu is doing it on my own.
“However Alwan forgot when he used to be pronouncing that ministers pay billions, that in step with segment one for the summon of the Nigerian Charter, subsection one, it’s the president that establishes the posts of ministers and appoints any one to it. And subsection two says it’s the Senate that confirms the appointment. So if any one is paying any one cash in billions to be appointed, he’s paying it both to the presidency or the Senate, as a result of they’re the folks constitutionally bestowed with the facility to nominate the ministers.
“So you’ll see the nexus that this govt is really corrupt and incompetent.”
Okonkwo maintained that the alleged cost of billions for ministerial appointments used to be an APC affair, insisting that people implicated within the scandal must face trial similarly.
“Alwan is a spokesperson of the APC. Tinubu inherited the presidency from some other APC govt. So, if it predated Tinubu, it’s nonetheless touchdown on APC’s head, and Alwan has been there from the start. It’s an APC affair, paying billions.”
He stated an Atiku Abubakar-led management would put in force the Oronsaye Report back to get rid of redundant and overlapping govt businesses, whilst making sure direct allocation of budget to native governments.
“What would Atiku Abubakar do otherwise? Atiku Abubakar has publicly introduced he’s going to put in force the Oronsaye document. Oronsaye document will mean you can establish the businesses which can be redundant, which can be faux, and which can be overflapping each and every different. After which you’ll now must streamline them, you must merge them, and you’ve got to get rid of the faux ones. Atiku Abubakar may be very transparent in that restructuring, simply as he’s very transparent that he’s going to switch the cash of native governments direct to them.”
At the redeployment of Oluyemi Titilayo Adeyemi-Showunmi to move INEC’s Electoral Operations Division, Okonkwo argued that her husband, Segun Showunmi, who’s interested by President Bola Tinubu’s re-election marketing campaign, raises considerations about possible bias given the dep.’s accountability for distributing electoral fabrics, deploying advert hoc personnel and coordinating polling unit operations on election day.
“At first, theologically, the husband and the spouse are one. So it’s assumed, it’s now not even by way of his spouse, it’s assumed given by way of God that the individual sitting there because the electoral operation division officer is Showunmi. In regulation, we’re now not speaking about whether or not there can be bias. We’re pronouncing that anything else that has the chance of bias isn’t allowed.
“So, permitting the spouse of Showunmi to be the electoral operation division officer simply ahead of the election, there may be absolute chance of bias.”
Okonkwo argued that the redeployment of Oluyemi Titilayo Adeyemi-Showunmi raised considerations about INEC’s neutrality, alleging it may well be a part of a planned try to rig the 2027 elections in favour of President Tinubu.
“That’s why we’re pronouncing that if Amupitan significantly believes that he desires to behavior an election that can be perceived as unfastened, honest, and credible, that lady must now not be there.
“So, you notice, for me, and that is my very own opinion, my submission is that it is a planned try to be sure that the election is rigged, to pronounce Tinubu as president, possibly getting rid of the technical glitch.”
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