Atiku should be in prison if system were working well – Buhari campaign office

President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign office has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar would have been in prison if the Nigerian system was working well.

The campaign office was reacting to Mr Abubakar’s reaction to a statement by Mr Buhari that his fight against corruption was moving slowly because of the prevailing system in the country.

Abubakar said Mr Buhari was the one slow and not the system.

He also accused the president of allowing corruption to thrive under his watch.

Spokesperson of the Buhari campaign Festus Keyamo in a statement on Wednesday said if the system was indeed working well, the former vice president would have been in jail for his alleged past corrupt endeavours.

“If the system in Nigeria was indeed working, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would not have run a monopolistic company called INTELS all these years, ripping off the Nigerian people and the Nigerian State before Muhammadu Buhari came and broke that monopoly.

“If the system was working, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would have been prosecuted and jailed for various acts of corruption and abuse of office after he left office as Vice President,” the statement read.

The campaign said some of Abubakar’s alleged offences include granting himself and former president Olusegun Obasanjo licenses to build universities while in office, laundering slush funds to the US using phoney companies among others.

“We have no time to respond to any allegation by the PDP without the backing of some kind of document or proof. When we see some scintilla of proof, we shall respond appropriately.

“And that is how we have treated the recent allegation of acquisition of shares in Etisalat and Keystone Bank by some supposed ‘family members’ of the President. No name was mentioned and no document was shown,” the statement concluded.