President Muhammadu Buhari will not resign over alleged cases of corruption in some government parastatals and agencies.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Tuesday at a briefing in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Mohammed, who described the call for Buhari’s resignation as infantile and uncalled for, noted that the present administration has recovered looted funds in excess of N800bn and recorded over 1,400 convictions.
Speaking on the cases of corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF), and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the minister noted that all persons found culpable will be punished according to the law.
Mohammed added that the anti-corruption war is not waning, saying that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others celebrating the cases of corruption to stop are engaging in wishful thinking.
He said: “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.
“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.”
