Most Politicians Guilty Of False Assets Declaration — Okurounmu

Senator Femi Okurounmu

Chairman of the 2014 National Conference Convocation Committee Senator Femi Okunrounmu, said on Saturday that many Nigerian politicians were guilty of false assets declaration. Okunrounmu stated this while interacting with newsmen on the sidelines of the 80th birthday celebration of the founder of the Oodu’a Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, in Lagos.

He said that if anybody had done anything that was against the law or the constitution, the person should be called to account.

“It should cover all the people who are guilty, not just target a few individuals. Ninety per cent of politicians declare assets falsely, so the law should go after all the people that are guilty of such false declaration of assets, try them and bring them to justice. They should not just target one or two people,” he said.

The Punch report continues:

Speaking about national confab, Okunrounmu alleged that leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress had always opposed it.

“May be, the constitution is favourable to some parts of the North; many northern APC leaders have always opposed a national confab. One can understand why they oppose a confab, but those who know how the current constitution came to being know that it was fashioned by successive military rulers, mostly from the North,” he alleged.

He said that the southern wing of the APC, led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had always agitated for a national conference, but were opposed to the 2014 confab “for political reasons.”

On the delay in cabinet formation by President Muhammadu Buhari, Okunrounmu stated that there was no provision for the president to administer Nigeria without a cabinet.

He added, “Even though there is no specification on the number of days within which he must send the names of ministers, any governance without ministers is a government of sole administrator which is not provided for in the constitution.”