Have no fear, Buhari won’t dig into the past – Oyegun assures corrupt leaders

John Odigie-Oyegun

BY ABU IDRISU

According to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, if the party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari gets elected, he would not look into the past to probe corrupt people and leaders.

Oyegun stated that Buhari would have no time to dig into the past, as the future of Nigerians is more important than trying to unravel past deeds and doings of politicians.

Oyegun made the comments while speaking to jorunalists in Benin City, Edo State, where he said that anyone that wans “change” in the country, has nothing to fear.

He said: “The only people I think should fear the Buhari presidency are those who do not want change. Those who want to continue with business as usual and those who want to continue to profit from the level of corruption in the society. We will have no apologies for people like that. But it is clear that from the Buhari perspective and that of the APC, the future of the people of this country is too important for us to spend valuable time trying to dig into the past.”

“The first moment of a Buhari Presidency will be to focus on the future. The message will be clear, whatever you were engaged in before that, that is detrimental to the people of this country, please stop it, change has come. It is time for change and anybody who decides that he does not want to be part of change and wants business as usual, that is his choice.”

Furthermore, Oyegun stated: “We will go into post May 2015, where the law will normally take its course. It is not going to be looking back. Anybody who believes that the future of this country is greater than his personal proclivities will have nothing to fear. There will be a line drawn on the sand, on one part is the past and on the other side is the future.”

“If you are part of the future, part of changing the society from the ills that have brought us to our kneels, you are our friend, you have nothing at all to fear. We don’t have time to go digging into the past. The future of our people is the challenge that we have, not the past.”