Buhari won’t probe past leaders if elected President in 2015 — Oyegun

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has stated that if elected president at the 2015 election, the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, will not witch-hunt or probe any past leader of the country but rather concentrate on creating a brighter future for Nigeria.



Oyegun however accused the presidency of blasphemy by comparing President Jonathan with Jesus Christ (recent comment by a presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe). He noted that “The only people I think should fear the Buhari presidency are those who do not want change. Those who want to continue with business as usual and those who want to continue to profit from the level of corruption in the society. We will have no apologies for people like that. But it is clear that from the Buhari perspective and that of the APC, the future of the people of this country is too important for us to spend valuable time trying to dig into the past.

“The first moment of a Buhari Presidency will be to focus on the future. The message will be clear, whatever you were engaged in before that, that is detrimental to the people of this country, please stop it, change has come. It is time for change and anybody who decides that he does not want to be part of change and wants business as usual, that is his choice.

“We will go into post May 2015, where the law will normally take its course. It is not going to be looking back. Anybody who believes that the future of this country is greater than his personal proclivities will have nothing to fear. There will be a line drawn on the sand, on one part is the past and on the other side is the future.

“If you are part of the future, part of changing the society from the ills that have brought us to our kneels, you are our friend, you have nothing at all to fear. We don’t have time to go digging into the past. The future of our people is the challenge that we have, not the past.”