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Suspended Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, in an open letter to president Muhammadu Buhari, apologised to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
In the open letter launched on Sunday, the embattled party chieftain lamented instances of corruption, battered financial system, killings, starvation and injustice beneath the present administration.
Timi Frank mentioned authorities has proven complete disdain for court docket pronouncements and the enforcement of basic human rights of residents.
He advised Buhari that “beneath your tenure the rule of regulation has been changed with the rule of drive. You have injected concern into the society.
“People who voted so that you can save them from corruption and ineptitude have been barred from talking up in opposition to the myriads of evil and depraved acts being perpetrated by officers in your authorities.
“Unfortunately, corruption is within the upward swing beneath your watch. This is why I needed to apologize to Jonathan since occasions of the final three years have proven the previous President was a higher chief.
“People freely expressed themselves beneath Jonathan’s administration with out concern of being branded cultists’ sponsors, gunrunners or aiding murderers. But not so beneath this administration.
“Under Jonathan, Nigerians loved freedom of speech, affiliation and proper to carry dissenting views together with organizing and partaking in protests in opposition to unwelcome authorities insurance policies. All these aren't any go areas right this moment.
“Does it imply Jonathan was a higher democrat? It is an incontrovertible fact that no member of the APC which was then within the opposition earlier than 2015 was jailed or harassed for expressing dissent.
“However, beneath this administration, the Senate President is being persecuted, Senator Dino Melaye has been arrested and detained like a frequent prison, Senator Matthew Urhroghide had been attacked for telling Nigerians that the Federal Government breached the Constitution by paying the sum of $496million for 12 Tucano fighter jets with out National Assembly approval; the trial of Senator Isa Misau by the AGF over his face-off with the Inspector General of Police, the persecution of most members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) within the title of combating corruption are all examples of intolerance beneath this administration.
“Mr. President, while your fight against corruption is being promoted as gathering steam leading to an award given to you by the African Union (AU) recently, the allegation of illegal award of $25billion contracts leveled against the GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has not been investigated but rather the malfeasance and shoddy dealing in the NNPC has been swept under the carpet because as the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources any probe of the agency will require that you make some explanations.”
The APC chieftain politician additionally mentioned “history will not be fair to me if I had championed the campaigns against former President Jonathan and now remain silent in the face of anti-democratic tendencies and sheer impunity.”