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Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has described President Muhammadu Buhari as African Union (AU) anti-corruption champion.
The statement is in reaction to the statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the several corruption allegations levelled against some agencies of government shows the President’s administration’s fight against corruption is waning.
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have all been recently hit by several allegations of financial malfeasance which made the main opposition party call for the resignation of President Buhari.
But at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, Mohammed said the call for the President’s resignation was ”infantile”.
Dismissing claims that the anti-corruption war of the Buhari administration was waning, the information minister dared anyone with a contrary opinion to try the government and see what will happen.
“You are all aware, Nigerians have recently been inundated with allegations of monumental corruption in a number of government agencies, including the NDDC, NSITF, and the anti-corruption agency, EFCC. Many, especially naysayers, have misinterpreted these developments as a sign that the Administration’s fight against corruption is waning,” he said.
“In fact, the main opposition PDP has latched on to the developments to call for the resignation of Mr. President, a call that is nothing but infantile!
“Let me state here and now that the fight against corruption, a cardinal programme of this Administration, is alive and well. President Muhammadu Buhari, the African Union’s Anti-Corruption Champion, who also has an impeccable reputation globally, remains the driver of the fight and no one, not the least the PDP under whose watch Nigeria was looted dry, can taint his image or reverse the gains of the fight.
“Anyone who disagrees that the anti-corruption fight is alive and well is free to dare us.”
