It is not a news again that another former Governor and serving Senator has been jailed for 14 years
for corrupt practices perpetrated while in office as Governor of Plateau State. The voices from the stakeholders in the
Nigeria democratic project on the prosecution in the last few days have been generating
new issues.
In the ruling party
camp, All Progressive Congress, the country is making headway in her quest of
getting rid of corruption. To some members of the opposition party, People’s
Democratic Party, President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government should not
be praised for the prosecution.
After the judgment, Reno
Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, tweeted that President
Muhammadu Buhari’s government didn’t charge and prosecute former Governor of
Plateau State, Joshua Dariye to court. According to him, former President
Goodluck Jonathan should be praised instead of President Muhammadu Buhari
because former President initiated the
trial of Senator Dariye before he decamped to the ruling party when the
prosecution had called all its vital witnesses and conviction appeared
imminent.
The position of the People’s
Democratic Party in Senator Dariye’s State aligns with Omokri’s view. The spokesperson
of the party said it was the decision of the PDP not to drag the former
governor to court when he defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC) with
the mandate of PDP because it was established that he
will not escape jail.
The party said: “This is the hour we
in the PDP have all been waiting for, the law has taken it course, it was a
landmark judgment that has created an avenue for PDP to reclaim its stolen
mandate.
However, Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission has said that jailing of Senator Joshua Dariye and Jolly
Nyame proves that the
commission is not selective in its efforts of prosecuting corrupt politicians
in the country.
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