APC Speaks About Buhari’s Swearing-In Ceremony, Says It Would Not Be Flamboyant
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| Chief Timipre Sylva |
Sylva stated that Buhari’s inauguration would not be flamboyant.
The chief of transition committee told our reporter quoting the dwindling economy as the reason for the decision.
While he was not categorical about the figure of Heads of States awaited to grace the event on May 29, Sylva meanwhile said that a number of them would come.
“There are no challenges, we are planning very well and I think we are going to give Nigerians a compact inauguration. We are not going to be flamboyant. We think that this country cannot afford a flamboyant ceremony this time because the economy is not in good shape right now. So we are actually planning to give Nigerians a sanitized and compact event which will be a source of pride to Nigerians,” he said.
“We have not gotten all the confirmations but we have already gotten from some countries. He also dismissed the insinuation that there may be rift between the incoming and the outgoing government.
“There is no problem, it is just politics. What happened is that they were on the wrong side and they lost. We are on the right side and we won. And so, the government will have to continue and just like we were there when they were governing, they also have to be there when we are governing the country”, Sylva added.
Sylva also responded to the accusation that he was carrying a corruption luggage and as such was not competent to be in Buhari’s cabinet.
He expressed shock that his detractors had already condemned him before the court would give their judgement on the matter.
Sylva said: “I will be shocked to hear that. Maybe, those peddling the allegation are the courts and they have already convicted me. We have courts in the land and you know that PDP is the party of impunity. Today if I pick you up and I charge you to court on charges of corruption, does that convict you? It is only the court that can convict you and that is why we have rule of law.
“A situation where people just pick you up and say you’re corrupt just to persecute you, does not augur well for our democracy. I have been vindicated politically and I will be vindicated by the court also because I ran the best government in Bayelsa state, a better government than what the outgoing President ran in Bayelsa state. I can assure you that I am going to come out clean at the end of the day from the charges against me.”
Sylva, who is also ex-governor of Bayelsa state, has been accused together with Francis Okokwo, Gbenga Balogun, and Samuel Ogbuku over supposedly using three companies to move about N19.2 billion from the state coffers between 2009 and 2012, under false pretense of using the withdrawn money to augment salaries of the state government workers.
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