Tobi Adebayo
Kassim Afegbua, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the United States to urgently prosecute a presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar for the corruption charges levelled against him.
In an opinion piece published on Sunday, Afegbua stated that “to sustain the ethics of a transparent leadership and positive governance, the report on Atiku by the US must not be ignored.”
He also revealed that he had been receiving threats over his stance on this issue, adding that this was the time for the US to take urgent actions against the PDP presidential aspirant.
“Rather than seek election under the umbrella of the PDP in 2023, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will do well to visit the United States of America to resolve his lingering corruption allegations which have led Senator Jefferson to jail.
“The outcome of an investigation against him and his “former” wife Jennifer revealed a lot of underhand transactions bordering on money laundering and other financial malfeasance.
“The onerous thing to do was for him to visit the United States of America to answer to those weighty allegations which were the outcome of the comprehensive investigations carried out by the United States Congress.
“In the 2019 presidential campaigns, we were inundated with several news reports, demanding that our party candidate should visit America.
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“When the request became so compelling, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was reportedly granted waiver by the United States Consular office in Lagos to enable him visit the United States with the then Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.
“After that visit till date, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has not been able to visit America again ostensibly on the stretch of those weighty allegations which have not been dispensed with.
“The entire report of the US Congress copiously indicted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on issues concerning money laundering. It will make judicious sense if the United States Government is able to treat this pending matter once and for all, by way of extraditing the former Vice President to answer those lingering queries on financial impropriety.
“The earlier Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is made to face the full wrath of the law, the better for our anti-corruption crusade, and the best for our fledgling democracy,” the piece read in part.
