On March 29, 2015, when President Muhammadu Buhari made the statement “I belong to everyone and I belong to nobody”, a lot of people didn’t believe he meant what he had said.


However, as his anti-corruption fight started and took shape the President gathered fans.


As corrupt individuals were picked and prosecuted he gathered more fans.


The President’s fans are however dwindling, and this is not because of the poor economy, but his seeming one sided fight against corruption.


Industry Watchers are shouting nepotism, as the supposed fight against corruption seems a war against only the South, West and the East.


As it is, corrupt individuals from the Northern part of Nigeria seem the safest of individuals irrespective of their crimes.


In recent times, individuals from the Southern and Eastern parts of Nigeria seem to have become target of the Ibrahim Magu-led Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).


A typical case of the nepotism being screamed is that of Dauda Lawal, an Executive Director in charge of Public Affairs in a first generation bank


Read more at http://www.theoctopusnews.com/2016/07/29/untouchable-dauda-lawal-the-golden-boy-of-the-north/