Buhari Will Only Probe The Jonathan Administration, Not The Ones Before – Presidency

President Buhari’s anti corruption dragnet will only be spread as far as the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan, the presidency has revealed.

Speaking to a select audience in the United States on Wednesday, Buhari had promised that all past Ministers and government officials who stole Nigeria’s oil and oil proceeds, will answer for their crimes.

The President had said;

“The amount of money (stolen) is mind-boggling but we have started getting documents.

“We have started getting documents where some of the senior people in government, former ministers, some of them had as much as five accounts and were moving about one million barrel per day on their own.

“We have started getting those documents. Whichever documents we are able to get and subsequently trace the sale of the crude or transfer of money from Ministries, Departments, Central Bank.

“We will ask for the cooperation of those countries to return those monies to federation accounts and we will use those documents to arrest those people and prosecute them. This, I promise Nigerians.”

Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to President Buhari, Femi Adesina, has said the administrations before Jonathan’s have nothing to fear.

Adesina said even before he was sworn into office on May 29, the president had categorically stated that he would not extend his corruption probe beyond the Jonathan government.

“If you recall, that was already settled before he got inaugurated as president. He has said he will not waste time digging into the far past,”Adesina said.

Adding that, “the far past will include Obasanjo and others. But the president has said he will not waste time to go that far.”

Shortly before leaving office, former President Jonathan had said any probe that doesn’t include administrations before his will amount to a witch-hunt.

“I believe that anybody that is calling for probe must also ensure that this probe is extended beyond the Jonathan administration. Otherwise, to me, it will be witch-hunt. If we are very sincere, it is not only the Jonathan administration that should be probed,” Jonathan had said in a valedictory address to his team.