The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to blame the Nigerian system for his failure to fight corruption, but to own up to his responsibilities.
Atiku said this on Wednesday in response to President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on his fight against corruption when he reacted to critics referring to him as ‘Baba Go Slow’ and said he is not slow but rather it is Nigeria’s system that is slow. But in his reaction today, Atiku said that the problem with Buhari’s anti-corruption war is not the system, but the president himself.
Atiku said further that Buhari admitting that his administration is slow shows failure of his administration in tackling corruption. He said the President’s response corroborates Transparency International, whose latest Corruption Perception Index shows that Nigeria is more corrupt today than it was under the previous administration.
According to him, the system allows for the arrest, trial and conviction of people like the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, who was fingered in a major corruption case, but that President Buhari chose to let him go scot free, thereby demonstrating his tolerance for the SGF’s corruption.
Atiku stated that it is actions such as this that have led to an unprecedented capital flight which has caused joblessness and made Nigeria the world headquarters for extreme poverty under President’ Buhari’s watch.
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