Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Relations and Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa on Tuesday gave credence to a comment by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron which labeled Nigeria as one of the two most “fantastically corrupt” countries in the world.
In a series of tweets where she engaged citizens, the Diaspora Advisor to President Buhari went on and on labeling Nigeria corrupt. In one tweet, she lambasted Nigerians for celebrating and worshipping corrupt leaders.
But what do you do when Nigerians celebrate and worship them.We all must suppor. @MBuhari to win this war! https://t.co/5RpP3PUtNQ
— Abike Dabiri-Erewa (@abikedabiri) May 10, 2016
Cameron’s comments on Tuesday received widespread criticisms across the world both in his home country Britain where citizens called his attention to how Britain was providing a safe haven for the fantastically corrupt.
The Nigerian Presidency on Tuesday described Cameron’s comment as “embarrassing”.
In a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Garba Shehu, shortly after the news of the Prime Minister’s comment went viral on the Internet, the presidency said, “This is embarrassing to us, to us say the least, given the good work that the President is doing, Mr. Buhari said. “The eyes of the world are on what is happening here.”
The presidency argued that the “Prime Minister must be looking at an old snapshot of Nigeria. Things are changing with corruption and everything else.”
However, observers say there are no real evidences to show that President Buhari has solved Nigeria’s corruption problem.
Only last week, a British newspaper questioned President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption credentials.
The Mail Online said President Buhari who is typecast as the People’s President may be waging a war against corruption but that his critics have described the war as a witch hunt.
The paper said Buhari sends his daughter to a £26,000-a-year English school and that in April the opposition PDP party unearthed a ticket stub showing Hanan, 16, had flown first-class from London to Nigeria, despite her father’s ban on officials using premium travel.
The report quoted a Nigerian newspaper alleging Buhari had spent £150,000 on educating his daughter Zahra, a Surrey University student.
The Mail Online also reported Buhari’s failure to give a full account of his worth, noting that even his partial admission included more than £ 1 million in the bank, five houses and two plots of land.
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