585m alledged fraud: Atiku’s aide urge Tinubu to fish out Edu’s accomplices

Phrank Shaibu, aide to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election, has urged President Bola Tinubu to fish out the accomplices of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu.

Shaibu in a statement on Tuesday said that it was unfortunate that a programme that was designed to lift over 100 million Nigerians out of extreme poverty had become a cash cow for successive governments of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Atiku’s aide also said that the suspension of the Minister caught in a disbursement scandal was commendable but not enough stressing that other accomplices be brought to book.

He said, “While Tinubu deserves commendation for suspending Edu, we believe this is a belated move. Firstly, he had no business appointing her as a minister of such a sensitive ministry in the first place. Tinubu put politics ahead of competence, hence this scandal. What experience did Betta have in the development sector?

“Betta Edu should not be the fall guy. Others who have remotely and wickedly benefitted from money that was meant for poor Nigerians ought to be fished out, probed, and prosecuted too. It is demonic and tendentiously wicked to steal in the name of the poor.”

Shaibu said there was need for the government to reform the humanitarian affairs ministry and other interventionist programmes.