APC leaders never funded Buhari’s election –Profor.david west
TINUBU, OTHERS never funded Buhari’s election
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources and President
Buhari’s associate, Prof Tam David-West, has said that all the All Progressives
Congress (APC) leaders claiming they funded President Muhammadu Buhari’s
election in 2015, were liars.
In an interview with VINCENT KALU, the elder statesman
scolded those who wishedthe President dead, and described them as callous
people, while he challenged those who said they funded Buhari’s campaign in
2015 to show evidence.
What is your assessment of President Buhari’s two years in
office?
Everybody knows where I stand with Buhari, and I have said a
lot about him. While other people can assess him the way they like, the truth
can never be defaced.
What has been Buhari’s greatest challenge?
Corruption is the greatest problem of this government. The
greatest challenge is not security, because we have very effective security
agencies, but the greatest challenge of this government is corruption and he is
fighting it very well, and expectedly, corruption is fighting back. If Nigeria
doesn’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria, because it has a lot of
money to fight back.
Corruption is two sides, why should somebody give you money
to corrupt your conscience? The corrupt people know that most Nigerians are
buyable. Corruption can never be fought from one side, and it has always been
the problem of successive governments. Former Military President Ibrahim
Babangida sent me to jail, because he said I drank a cup of tea with a white
man and received a gift of wristwatch. I have challenged him to make a public
declaration of his assets as I have done mine three times.
I’m not trying to be self righteous, if you have personal or
self worth, there is no need for you to be corrupt; how much money would be
given to kill your conscience, most of the corrupt people are victims of
inferiority complex, that is why they loot to please their egos.
Buhari is fighting corruption very well, because if you are
corrupt, you can’t fight corruption.
Buhari has brought out the best characters of Nigerians and
the worst aspect of Nigerians.
The best aspect of Nigerians he has brought out is that he
has shown that most Nigerians don’t like corruption.
He has also brought out that Nigerians are callous. How can
somebody be sick instead of wishing him to get well in time, you are praying
that he dies in time. Some people are asking Buhari to tell them about his
health status. What is their business with his health? One stupid lawyer said
that the President is a public property. It is a lie, Buhari is not a public
property, that you are a president doesn’t mean that you are a public property.
Late American President Franklin Roosevelt had polio at the
age of 19 and was crippled, and throughout his tenure he was on wheelchair, and
America made no hue and cry about it. He was one of the greatest presidents in
American history.
But in Nigeria, those ignorant people keep asking, Buhari,
how is your health, what are you suffering from? Are they healthy themselves?
Anyone telling Buhari to make public his health status, have they made theirs
public? Some of them have sicknesses they are hiding.
God has helped this country a lot, but we refused to be
helped. Corruption is another name for Nigeria; are we not embarrassed when the
leader of black nations is addressed as being, “fantastically corrupt?”
Given the history of elections in Nigeria, as an incumbent,
his supporters are eager to know whether he will re-contest or not, they are
confused, so, what are you telling them against the background that some other
aspirants like Atiku, Kwakwanso are doing some underground works?
I’m not a politician and I have never joined any political
party before. Politicians know their style; I have never joined any political
party before. What politicians do and don’t do has nothing to do with me. I
have never joined any political party before, and I have not contested any
election before, so what politicians do is none of my business.
When they come in, if they do something that I like, I
commend, but when they do something that I don’t like, I also condemn. They cannot
silence me. or buy me; I don’t need anything from them. My views have been on
principle.
Let those people do ground work. Nigerians are very wise, if
they like let them do air work, if Nigerians don’t like you they will not vote
for you. Some of them should know that. They shared a lot of money, even
dollars during the party primary, but they didn’t make any impact. You can do
ground work, do the sky work, and you will not win election in Nigeria, if they
don’t like you.
Let them go on. They are fighting themselves and also
imaginary enemy; they are afraid of him, and they don’t know whether he will
run again or not. Let them do ground work, let them do any work; Nigerians will
not vote for you, if they don’t like you. Most of them are alleged to be
corrupt.
If Buhari is going to re-contest, where would the funds come
from, because his associates and men who are supposed to fund grassroots
politicking may not have the money as they might not have been empowered. More
so, those who funded his campaigns last time may not be eager to do so this
time, if he decides to re-contest, so where would the funding come from?
It is stupid of them to talk of Buhari’s campaign. Did they
know how the campaign was funded last time? Did they contribute money for Buhari
to campaign? They lied, and that is why I said they were stupid to have said
that Tinubu supported and gave him money to run.
All those claiming they funded the campaign didn’t fund
anything. It will surprise you how he got the money. There was a lousy governor
from the South who said he gave billions for the Buhari campaign, it is
absolute lie. They didn’t fund Buhari’s campaigns.
How then did he get money to fight the election, since we
were told that he wasn’t rich?
You will be surprised how he got the money. I don’t care who
they are, those who say they funded Buahri’s campaigns are stupid. If they had
evidence they financed the election they would have brought it up by now.
I know this as a fact; these people never funded his
election. These people who are shouting never financed his election, even this
loud-mouthed governor, I was reliably informed, used to borrow money from the
campaign fund, and he would shout that he funded it. Time will come when I
would open my mouth and Nigeria will burn.
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