The Senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Abdullahi Adamu says former President Olusegun Obasanjo ought to be on trial if the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari was total.

Senator Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State made the claim in Abuja on Monday at a press briefing in reaction to the special statement issued by the former president on Buhari’s performance in government.

Adamu who is also the Chairman of the Northern Senators Group said Obasanjo lacked the moral standing to counsel President Buhari against seeking a second term in office when he (Obasanjo) had sought to be re-elected for a third term.

He said if the anti-corruption crusade of the Buhari administration were to be total and all- inclusive in nature, Obasanjo ought to have been tried.

His words: “Chief Obasanjo said that President Buhari is selective in his anti-corruption war, I agree with him because if the President were not selective, Chief Obasanjo himself would be in the dock today on trial over charges of corruption arising from the corrupt practices in the pursuit of his third term gambit in the National Assembly in 2006.

“He (Obasanjo) knows as well as I and other leading members of the PDP that he badly wanted it and initiated the process of constitutional amendment. He bribed each member of the National Assembly who signed up to support the amendment, with the whooping sum of ₦50 million.

“The fresh mint money was taken in its original boxes presumably from the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria and distributed among the legislators. The money was not his, and it was not appropriated by the National Assembly as required by law.

“I therefore, agree that in failing to make former President Obasanjo account for the money, President Buhari is waging his anti-corruption war selectively.”