The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has called for immediate probe of the eight-year tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo just as it advocated a national conference to enable Nigerians deliberate on numerous problems facing the country.
Speaking to LEADERSHIP in Enugu yesterday, national chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, said there was need to probe Obasanjo and subsequently jail him.
He said it was necessary to probe Obasanjo who spent billions of dollars on power but could not achieve any meaningful result.
The APGA boss assured that probing Obasanjo would not be a distraction, saying for Nigeria to be a better place, past administrations must be examined.
Umeh disclosed that corruption had continued to be endemic in Nigeria because its past corrupt leaders were yet to be probed, a development he said had encouraged many people to embrace the vice.
He insisted that unless failed leaders in Nigeria including Obasajo were probed, people would continue to loot the nation’s treasury.
Although he kicked against the death penalty for past corrupt leaders, Umeh insisted that there was need to probe them and send them to jail.
He urged Obasanjo to resign from politics following his inability to enthrone true democracy within his eight- year tenure.
Umeh alleged that the former president squandered the golden opportunity offered him in the past to make Nigeria a great nation, saying that Nigerians were yet to see what he did when he was president.
The APGA national chairman, who was reacting to the call for the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his deputy recently made by the ex-president, said the call was mischievous and therefore not tenable.
Umeh attributed all the problems threatening the existence of Nigeria to the faulty foundations laid by Obasanjo and urged the former head of state to apologize to Nigerians.
On the numerous problems threatening the existence of Nigeria, the APGA stalwart advocated a national conference, stating that it was the only way to provide ample opportunity for Nigerians to deliberate on the problems.
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