President Muhammadu Buhari said Sunday that he fulfilled his electoral promise to rid Nigeria of corruption by relentlessly fighting the menace during his eight-year administration.
“I did pursue this commitment relentlessly, in spite of the expected pushback. I am happy that considerable progress had been made in repatriating huge sums of money back to the country and also taken over properties illegally acquired from our commonwealth,” Mr Buhari said.2022 Corruption Perceptions Index
The Buhari administration recorded progress in recovering looted assets from within Nigeria and abroad, but took major missteps that are considered a major rollback on the success of the administration’s fight against corruption. The Buhari administration made a huge capital of the corruption case against Mr Dasuki in showing to Nigerians that they had made the right choice to elect the former military leader as president in 2015.
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