President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he would soon order the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to publish a comprehensive list of amount of stolen funds so far recovered in the country.
Buhari made the disclosure at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally in Benin City.
President Buhari, who is seeking re-election for the next four year, said the authorities of the EFCC and ICPC would jointly hold a press conference to address Nigerians of the state of funds recovered so far and what the government intend to do with it.
He said his administration was selling assets of convicted corrupt persons while the proceeds were being saved in the Treasury Saving Account (TSA).
He also disclosed that through investment in agriculture, the Federal Government had saved hundred of millions of dollars.
On the state of insecurity in the country, he said the security in the North-East region and in the Niger Delta had improved more that what it used to be in 2015.
He however urged Nigerians to give the party another four years, to be able to fulfil all his electoral promises to the people.
He also canvassed vote for all APC national and state legislative candidates during the next election so that they could all control the legislative leadership of the National Assembly as well as their various states.
Earlier, the national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, who blamed the nation’s economic woes on the People’s Democratic Party’s 16 years of misrule, said four years was not enough for the party to deliver on its electoral mandate.
Oshiomhole, who however welcome some defectors from the PDP to the party, told the defectors that their sins had been forgiven.
According to Oshiomhole, Tony Iluobe, Henry Duke Tenebe and all that just defected your sins have been forgiven since you have decided to join APC.
On his part, Governor Godwin Obaseki, who urged the people to vote en masse for the President, attributed his achievements in the last two years to the support of the President.
Obaseki, who promised one million votes for the President in the next election, said the President had promised to address the power challenges in the state.
Minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaedhi, who is also the director-general of Buhari campaign organisation, who noted that Edo State was the only APC state in the South-South, urged the people not to disappoint the party during the election.
