Morocco’s former Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane said that some newspapers want to “politically kill” him, adding that he was the first to raise the issue of cheating on exams and insisted on finding a solution during his tenure.
Benkirane, also the Sec-Gen of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), said at a meeting with the party’s youth from Beni-Mellal that the opponents were not honest and continued to criticize him and members of his party in their “mercenary newspapers.”
Benkirane went on to say that some newspapers were seeking to “politically kill him”, asserting he would not back down and would always promote integrity.
“They expose anyone whenever he does anything,” he said, referring to the case of MP Noureddine Kchibel, member of PJD, who was caught in possession of three mobile phones while taking the baccalaureate exam.
The former PM asserted that the party doesn’t blindly support its members, which is a reflection of his condemnation of Kchibel’s incident if the party’s integrity and transparency committee proved his involvement.
“I was never unjust towards anyone and I didn’t take anyone’s money.”
Justice and Development Party’s case is closely monitored by several countries and Islamist movements and parties who wonder how Morocco remained a stable country even after Islamists were part of the government for five years, according to Benkirane.
“The people trusted and re-elected us several times, and it was nothing like what is happening Libya, Syria, and Yemen,” noted the PM.
He concluded by saying that Morocco is one of the oldest countries in the world, if not the oldest, with history and culture that should be preserved for the country to grow.
