Corruption Appears third On Buhari List after Insecurity and Unemployment

The president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, said he would kill corruption before it kills Nigeria after he would be inaugurated on May 29. He also urged state governors and other public officials to follow his example.

 

Gen. Buhari made this statement during a courtesy visit of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Akwa Ibom Chapter, in Abuja on Thursday.

According to him, the nation’s problems were not ethnic or religious, but corruption. He said tackling corruption is third on his agenda, after insecurity and unemployment.

“We have to get the issue of the economy right to make sure the jobs are made available and we should try to kill corruption before corruption kills Nigeria.

“Let us practice what we preach as well, whoever wins as a governor too has a lot of work to do because corruption is fast becoming a culture and to try to caution people is not an easy task but it must be done,” he said.

During the meeting, he also encouraged Umana Umana, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Akwa Ibom, who lost to Udom Emmanuel (PDP), with the story of his three political struggles in court.

“I have appealed three times and arrived at the Supreme Court not because I believe the system had changed but this time around, in your own case, you were still denied even with the use of PVCs and the card readers,” he advised.