The Buhari Presidential Campaign Organization spokesman, Festus Keyamo (SAN), on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s war on corruption is yielding positive result.
Keyamo, who spoke at an anti-corruption symposium organized by a pro-APC pressure group in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said it is no longer business as usual for “some political leaders who allocate contracts and oil well to their girl friends for sex.”
He said some political leaders are united in corruption adding that Nigeria needs a long period of sustained honest leadership.
He stated that prudent application of our resources has been a problem in Nigeria stressing that the anti-corruption war should be proactive and not reactive.
“President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war has yielded a huge success. Some of the achievements recorded in the anti-corruption war are the recovery of 290 automobiles, the recovery of about N780billion, 407 Mansions as well as millions of dollars, pounds and Euros recovered by the federal government’s anti graft agency,” he said.
The guest lecturer at the event and a Professor of Political Economy from the University of Port Harcourt, Eme Ekekwe, said that anti-corruption war should be a collective fight, not President Buhari’s war.
He said: “the Nigeria state was built on corruption and on corruption we strive; first election conducted by the British (colonial master) in Nigeria was rigged, the first census in Nigeria was also manipulated.”
Prof. Ekekwe maintained that the problem of Nigeria is leadership and lack of political will to fight corruption.
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