Fayose insists Obasanjo has no moral right to preach about corruption

The governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose,
has once again lambasted former President
Olusegun Obasanjo over the lawyer’s comment
on corruption.
Fayose advised the erstwhile President, who
according to him remains the father of
corruption, to stop accusing Nigerians of
corruption.
Obasanjo had in his paper presentation on the
theme, “The role of the church in the fight
against corruption in Nigeria,” which he
presented in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday,
at the 2017 Convention Lecture of Victory Life
Bible Church International, accused the church
of encouraging corruption.
But reacting to that in a statement issued on
Sunday through his special assistant on public
communications and new media, Lere Olayinka,
Fayose said that if anyone must accuse the
church in Nigeria of promoting corruption, it
certainly must not be Obasanjo.
According to Fayose, Obasanjo remains the
father of corruption and presided over the most
corrupt government in the history of Nigeria as
president.
He questioned, “Where did Obasanjo get the
stupendous wealth he is parading since he was
a pauper before he became president? Where
did he get the trillions of naira that he deployed
to his failed third term bid?

“How can Obasanjo, under whose tenure, Nigeria
witnessed the Halliburton scandal be
sermonising about corruption?”
Recalling how Obasanjo allegedly made
governors donate N10million each to the
building of his library, Fayose said, “Isn’t
compelling state governors to make donations
to the personal project of a serving president
part of corruption?
“Who introduced the politics of ‘Ghana-must-go’
bags to the National Assembly? Who was the
president when sacks of money were displayed
on the floor of the House of Representatives as
bribe money given to some Reps members to
impeach the then Speaker, Ghali N’abba?
“Under whose administration was the out-of-
court settlement in the controversial $1.09bn
Malabu oil block initiated in 2006?”, Fayose
queries.