The Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has given President Bola Tinubu a seven-day ultimatum to order a comprehensive investigation into the scandal rocking the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC. He recently had his say while speaking through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Warning that failure to do so will increase public suspicion that FG benefited from the alleged fraud, Atiku said that the controversy has moved beyond ordinary forgery allegations into a full-blown crisis of institutional credibility.
Stressing that Nigerians deserve the truth, the former vice president added that further silence will amount to complicity.
His words, “If the government wants Nigerians to believe that one man single-handedly created an office for himself, secured office space within a government facility, held meetings with foreign embassy delegations, paid courtesy visits to the EFCC, processed staff salaries through official channels, allegedly operated institutional accounts, and carried on all these activities without the knowledge, approval, negligence or collaboration of anyone within government, then that narrative raises even more troubling questions than it answers.
At some point, we must separate an individual’s alleged conduct from the institutional systems that either enabled it or failed to detect it.
Nigeria deserves the truth. Quietly investigating the matter and addressing the lapses would have been better than publicly presenting a story that collapses under its own contradictions.
The President must order a comprehensive, independent investigation immediately. Anything short of that will amount to complicity by silence.”
