The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday denied a newspaper’ s report that he would
subject the military and other arms of government to probe, if elected as
president in the February 14 election.
Buhari, made the clarification through a statement signed by Garba Shehu
of the Directorate of Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign
Organisation.
The retired general, however, said his administration would decisively
deal with all cases of impunity and corruption without minding whose ox would
be gored.
The statement further reiterated Buhari’s stance that “when elected into
office in February, the era of impunity will be over for the rogues. But there
is no time for engaging in probes or a witch-hunt.”
It also quoted Buhari as saying that he was passionately concerned about
the conditions of the armed forces at the moment.
Buhari, according to the statement, lamented that despite the huge
budgetary allocations, the country had failed to effectively deal with manifest
security threats including the Boko Haram challenge.
The statement read in part, “What he (Buhari), said at every given
opportunity is that he is keenly interested in knowing what has gone wrong, if
any with the Army that he knew. When he has access to them as the
Commander-in-Chief, he (Buhari) will like to hear from his commanders what are
the problems they are dealing with so that they can be solved.
“In a democracy such as ours, all institutions of government, including
the armed forces, are accountable. No country can achieve results in its
counter-terrorism efforts when there is no transparency in the management of
huge resources for the purpose.”
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