Veteran Nollywood actor and playright, Dr. Pedro Obaseki, has condemned the outcry by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war is targeted at members of the opposition party.
Obaseki, who stated this in an interview with Punch in Benin, Edo State, today, declared that it was unfortunate that the opposition party had mistaken the planned prosecution of past public officers, who had been accused of financial mismanagement, for persecution.
“I think the PDP is seeing the prosecution of principal players in the government they held as perceived persecution. If Buhari, who came because Nigerians wanted those who have looted the treasury to be prosecuted, is doing that and those who are the immediate victims are seeing it as persecution, it is okay,” he stated.
The former Managing Director of Daar Communications Plc explained that Nigerians in the Diaspora were shocked with the arrest of a former petroleum minister, a development, he said, was an embarrassment to the image of the country.
He said, “It is a shame for me to be on a plane to the UK and just as you get to the airport, they are announcing the arrest of my immediate past Minister of Petroleum.
“No matter how much happiness Nigerians get that Diezani (Alison-Madueke) has been arrested, at that point, all of us at Heathrow Airport, who were Nigerians, felt diminished because the British Government had arrested our immediate past minister of the most economic resource in our nation. If your are a Nigerian, your humanity will shrink a little.”