The National Conscience Party (NCP) has given President Olusegun Obasanjo an ultimatum to either respond to allegations that his wife, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo and son, Gbenga, solicited for and were awarded multi-billion naira contracts by the Organising Committee for the All African Games (COJA), or face legal action.

In an open letter signed by the National Secretary of the party, Femi Aborishade and addressed to Obasanjo, the party accused Obasanjo of breaching the 7th schedule of the Constitution in which he swore never to allow his personal interest override national and public interest.

The party which accused the present administration of playing double standards with the issue of corruption argued that " how could the President creditably and genuinely fight corrupt practices involving other persons when it is public knowledge that he did not move against those perpetrated by his own wife and son?"

The NCP pointed out that "there is a relationship between enforcement of discipline and consistent observance of rules and regulations. Discipline and enforcement of laws are easily compromised in situations of double standard".

The party emphatically stressed that " A President who accommodates corrupt practices by his wife and son in the COJA contracts can hardly fight corruption involving other COJA contractors or any other contractor to government for that matter."

On the current deregulation of the downstream oil sector, the NCP maintained that it could only be as a result of widespread corruption within government circles that would account for the failure of the present administration to repair and put the nation's refineries back to work.

According to the party, the only conclusion that the Nigerian people can deduce from their prolonged sufferings under the Obasanjo regime is for them to "come to the conclusion that there is no fundamental difference between your government and those of successive Nigerian governments that had looted public resources while imposing additional taxation on the people by asking them to pay more for strategic goods and services as a way of financing the depletion of public wealth through corruption".

It noted that in spite of the media report exposing lurid details of the contracts awarded to members of the first family and the attendant controversy that the execution of the projects fell far below stipulated standards, neither the President nor his government has deemed it fit to publicly deny the allegations.