Tinubu’s campaign council is corruption’s rehabilitation centre – ADC

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By Luminous Jannamike, ABUJA

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The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has described President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 campaign council as a ‘rehabilitation centre’ for persons facing unresolved corruption allegations.

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The opposition party said the appointments raise a simple question: what happened to the corruption cases involving some of those being brought back into the political fold?

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In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC some inclusions, some persons had faced EFCC prosecution over alleged financial malpractices.

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“If they have been cleared, the government should show how and when and by whom they were cleared,” Abdullahi said.

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The ADC alleged that corruption investigations under the Tinubu administration increasingly disappear from public view, only for some of those involved to resurface in political or official positions.

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“Under this government, corruption allegations increasingly appear to have an expiry date,” the party said.

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‘2027 is a referendum’

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It also said the 2027 election would be a referendum on Tinubu’s three-year record, accusing the administration of worsening poverty and the cost-of-living crisis while politically connected Nigerians enjoy what it described as ‘obscene opulence’.

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“They cannot campaign away the cost of living crisis or the endemic poverty that their bad policies have created,” the ADC said.

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The party renewed its call for a targeted, capped, budgeted and independently audited subsidy on fuel production to reduce pump prices and ease the pressure on households.

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“Our proposal is straightforward: every naira must be traceable and every barrel accounted for,” the ADC said.

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It challenged Tinubu to account for what it described as waste and wrong-headed policies under his administration.

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