Africa Press-Nigeria:
The federal government has reacted to Nigerians’ call on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.
Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, told the media on Tuesday, that Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) government are not corrupt.
He cited the scandals rocking the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Nigeria Social Investment Trust Fund (NSITF).
Mohammed said “naysayers have misinterpreted these developments as a sign that the Administration’s fight against
corruption is waning.”
The minister noted that the resignation call by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) “is nothing but infantile.”
He said the fight against corruption remains a cardinal programme of the incumbent.
“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.
“What the revelations of the past few weeks, especially the investigation of the nation’s anti-corruption Czar, have shown is that this Administration is not ready to sweep any allegation of corruption under the carpet; that there is no sacred cow in this fight, and that – unlike the PDP – we will not cover up for anyone, including the members of our party and government, who faces corruption allegations.
“I wish to state that the allegations of corruption in NDDC, for example, are not new. What is new is the speed and seriousness with which this administration has tackled, and is still tackling, the allegations. Had such attention been paid to the running of the NDDC by previous administrations, the Commission would probably have avoided its present predicament. Is it not a sad irony, then, that those under whose watch the alleged freewheeling spending by the Commission
started are now the ones accusing those who are cleaning up corruption after them?”
