President Bola Tinubu has come under fire from Shehu Sani, a former congressman who served in the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, for claiming he has no interest in looking into military spending under his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.
Sani made this claim on Tuesday’s Politics Today show on Channels Television.
Recalls that President Tinubu stated he would not look into military spending under Buhari in a media interaction on Monday.
The former lawmaker claimed that doing so amounted to endorsing corruption and theft.
He claimed that the President’s position ran counter to his investigation of the previous operations of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which was run by the troubled former governor, Godwin Emefiele.
“When you find yourself in this position, especially with a nation facing these critical issues like ours, you still have to go backward and see how public funds that were looted have been recovered and I think we have been doing that with what has happened in the CBN the last time.
“But when one of the panelists questioned him (Tinubu) about the looting, the mismanagement of security and defense forces under the Buhari administration, which he needs to probe, I think he made it clear that he is more interested in moving forward than moving backward. It’s a bit contradictory; you can move backward in CBN but you can’t move backward in security.
“I believe that what should have been is that if he is being provided with evidence that shows that there are clear cases of corruption, he would move to recover public funds. That is what the answer was supposed to be.
“If you say that whatever happened in the past has gone, it is more like rewarding larceny which he has done by saying he is not going to go back,” he said.
He went on to say that since all of his cabinet members are performing, Tinubu should be held responsible for all of his policies and the deeds of his ministers.
