By Stanley Onyekwere
Following the controversies trailing the alleged misappropriation of social investment funds,Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress APC, Dr. Garus Gololo, has decried the seemingly delayed invitation and suspension of the Minister of Interior, Mr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo and others on alleged their involvement in the whole saga.
Gololo argued that as the government suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, Tunji-Ojo also should have been suspended, because of his alleged involvement in a N438.1 million naira as consultancy fees to numerous companies allegedly linked to him.
He however, threatened to head to court to seek justice and to ensure that all involved are brought to book and justice served.
The outspoken member of the ruling party, who this point yesterday in Abuja, insisted that the Federal Government, should have extended Edu’s to the Minister of Interior, so that Nigerians would cheer the Presidency for its political will.
He said: “How can you be a consultant, with your own companies,while holding public office.
“He has to be suspended alongside those involved to make it complete.”
While noting that there is a big difference between handling public funds and doing a good job, Gololo said “If he is doing a good job, he is not supposed to be indicted of embezzling people’s’ funds.
“ If I may ask, is he the only Minister in Nigeria? or the most qualified? The fact, is that he has been indicted, he has to leave. That is just the truth. He just has to go with Betta Edu pending when the investigation bis completed and of course we know that no one remains in office while undergoing probe.”
The former APC BOT member adds:”During Buhari’s regime, we had cabals, and in Tinubu’s administration we have cartel. The cartel are there in the villa, if they don’t remove them we will continue having this problem. We will push them out because they are not wishing this government to succeed.
“Those cartel are the ones bringing most of those Ministers, but for now we need Ojo to be suspended by Mr President. There is no way they can suspend the other woman (Betta Edu), and they cannot suspend him too. I don’t think he is untouchable.
“He is supposed to leave as a Minister, then after he is cleared he can go back as a Minister or he goes to Kuje and relax there.
“I called for the suspension of Betta Edu and Mr. President listened. We want him also to listen to this too to suspend so that it will be 50/50 so that nobody will say this one is from this side, and this one is from the other side. We are all Nigerians, and we are citizens.
“They called Sadiya Umar Farouq and she came to face probe, let them also call Tunji Ojo out, let him give his statement, let them suspend him, let us know why he should be a Minister and a consultant.
“Any other person involved must be suspended, because when here about this there are many people involved in this must go on suspension, even if is a member of the APC.
“We campaigned for Mr. President as members of same party. We made promises that we are going to help Nigerians out of poverty but it is now from poverty alleviation to personal alleviation”.
