‘Betta Edu’s name, role define moral decay in Nigeria’s democracy’ – Mahdi Shehu

Political commentator Mahdi Shehu has criticised the inclusion of Dr Betta Edu successful the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, questioning her relation successful the party’s preparations for the 2027 wide predetermination amid reports of investigations involving her.

Shehu made the remarks successful a station connected his authoritative X relationship connected Thursday, pursuing the inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council astatine the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa successful Abuja connected Wednesday.

President Bola Tinubu had charged Edu, who serves arsenic Director of Women Mobilisation of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, members of the Women’s Directorate and different enactment leaders to intensify grassroots mobilisation and enactment towards triumph successful the 2027 elections.

Reacting to Edu’s inclusion successful the council, Shehu described her arsenic a pampered person and questioned whether the enactment had moved connected from the controversies surrounding her.

“Suspended Betta Edu, with pending transgression probe earlier ICPC, EFCC and tribunal of nationalist opinion, is present a pampered person whose sins person either been forgiven nether APC syllabus of mistake oregon cleansed and adust cleaned with a vessel of SWAN h2o whose outgo is N583M oregon she has been ‘SAVED’ by her geography,” helium wrote.

“Either way, her sanction and relation arsenic contained successful the APC-PCC defines the motivation decay successful Nigerians ideology wherever shameles...