Check corruption, dwindling economy, PDP chief tells Buhari

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Yemi Oladimeji, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to check the country’s dwindling economy and corruption in governance.

He spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Monday.

Oladimeji, who vied to become Osun State governor in 2007 on the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, described the nation’s dwindling economy as an ill wind.

The US-based nephrologist said the unprecedented slide of the naira against the dollar should be checked through massive investments in agriculture and small-scale entrepreneurs.

Oladimeji, who later defected to the PDP, said it was high time the Federal Government put its hands on the plough and evolve ‘an ingenious means of arresting the collapsing economy’.

Expressing support for the ongoing anti-corruption war, Oladimeji lamented that corruption was the bane of the nation’s development.

He said, “The body language of the President against corruption is commendable. We must all support him in this direction. But the anti-corruption campaign must not be selective.

“If you probe PDP leaders over the funding of election campaign, the same must be done to the leaders of the All Progressives Congress. Answers must be provided to the question of where Buhari got his election funding from.”