Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has promised to fix Nigeria and tackle corruption more decisively than any past government, if elected as next president of the country, come 2015.
Lamenting the level of insecurity and rot in the country, including Boko Haram insurgency in the North, kidnapping and other vices in the South, oil bunkering, disunity, acts of impunity on the part of government officials, Atiku promised to fix the country and move it forward as he could not see anybody fixing it right now.
He said, “It is a great sense of giving back that is driving me. I don’t see anybody fixing this country that is why I am offering myself for the job. It is the desire to fix the country that is driving me.”
Atiku, who is set to formally declare his presidential ambition on Wednesday, at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), made this declaration on Monday, in Lagos, at an interactive session with newsmen.
Abubakar maintained that he remains the most investigated Nigerian and yet nothing corrupt was found against him.
He recalled the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) saga, over which the Senate cleared him of any wrong doing.
According to Atiku, corruption has become endemic in the country and recalled that it was not so during the Obasanjo era to which he was a part, as various anti-corruption agencies were set up, including the Economic and Financial Crime and Other Related Offences Commission (EFCC).
He added that under the regime, people were afraid to engage in acts of corruption, even as he recalled that many people also faced corruption charges and those found guilty were accordingly sentenced.
Speaking further, Alhaji Atiku, who promised to do his best to deliver Adamawa State to the APC in the forthcoming by-election, expressed delight that he had been able to fulfill his dream of a democratic Nigeria through the establishment of APC and thereby rescuing the country from calamity of one party state.
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