and Publicity, Femi Adesina was a guest on Channels TV this morning to
speak on the suspension and investigation of suspended Secretary to the
Government of the Federation SGF, Babachir Lawal and former Director
General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke.
During the
interview session, Adesina was asked how deep corruption in the
presidency is. In his reply, he said
“No, you don’t
need to single out the presidency. The question should be how deep is
the corruption in Nigeria. There is corruption everywhere, everywhere in
the country and don’t forget that the Vice President has said it before
that there is corruption everywhere. Judiciary, Executive, Legislator,
there is corruption everywhere, possibly in broadcasting. There is
corruption everywhere in Nigeria”.
Asked to
react to the question asked by suspended Secretary to the Government of
the Federation SGF “Who is the Presidency”, Adesina said Babachir’s
question was a rhetorical one only him can answer.
Recall that Babachir
asked state house correspondents who the presidency was when he was
accosted to react to his suspension two days ago (Read here)
“It
takes me back to school days when we were taught rhetorical questions.
We were told that Rhetorical questions don’t need an answer, so I just
see that as a rhetorical question. If we must get an answer, then we
must get it from the SGF because he asked it”.
On
why the Federal government is constituting a 3-man panel to investigate
the allegations against Babachir rather than have the EFCC or ICPC
ivestigate the matter, Adesina said
“It is a
matter of procedure by government. If government feels this is the way
we want to go about it and it is lawful, then there is nothing wrong
with it. I believe there is nothing wrong with the government setting up
a panel to investigate”.
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