President Buhari Under Pressure To Stop Anti-Corruption War?

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari is currently under some serious pressure to stop his administration’s ongoing war on corrupt men and women.

He said the pressure was being mounted by some Nigerian elite.

“We get messages from some Nigerian elite saying ‘cool down.’ It is a very strange morality that some of those people have, (which is) very complicated, and cutting across all tribes and religious differences.”

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Vice President spoke while granting audience to a delegation from the Muslim Congress of Nigeria.

The position of those putting pressure on the government was that “it (corruption) is not a big deal.”

But the vice-president expressed delight that contrary to the argument of the elite, a new set of Nigerians, who would not compromise their values but would maintain a sense of right and wrong, was emerging.

Vice President Osinbajo declared: “The man on the street is very clear; so whatever some of these elite say, we shall keep our focus on the masses who voted for us.”