Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti state, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing corruption fester on his watch. The verbal attack comes after a rare handshake they had before the beginning of the Council of State meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Fayose was reacting to the latest report by Transparency International, TI, which indicated Nigeria had dropped from 136 to 148. He said the President was only using his anti-corruption war to tackle his political opponents and not really fighting the vice in the real sense. He insisted that the present administration was shielding corrupt officials in its government.
”Transparency International only confirmed what I have said before that President Buhari is only hiding under anti-corruption fight to harass his perceived political foes while protecting corrupt people in his government.
”Fact is that President Buhari is presiding over the worse form of corruption in the history of Nigeria and the good thing is that despite their propaganda, they have not been able to hide the rot in their government from the eagle eyes of international organisations like the Transparency International,” he said in a statement issued by Lere Olayinka, his spokesman.
He also said the indictment of Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for corruption had further shown that the anti-corruption war was invalid.
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