Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has challenged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to identify government officials allegedly involved in the circumstances surrounding the fraudulent Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council.
Atiku insisted that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission interim report does not amount to an exoneration of the presidency.
He said the report, which reportedly identified negligence and ‘connivance’ within government processes, had instead raised fresh questions about how an alleged impostor was able to operate within official circles, gain access to government facilities and instruments, and establish accounts in the name of fictitious government agencies.
In a statement issued on his behalf by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu on Friday, Atiku said the government could not simultaneously acknowledge failures within its processes and claim that the State House system was completely above board.
“If there was connivance, who connived? If public officers were negligent, who are they? Who granted access to government offices? Who recognised this supposed Director-General? Who enabled him to operate within the machinery of government?” Atiku asked.
