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“Buhari has driven corruption under the table” – Lai Mohammed.—DAILY INDEPENDENT, January 2, 2020, p 13.

Wonders never cease. Just as I thought that Lai Mohammed and I will never agree on anything, the Minister of Information and Culture gave me an unexpected New Year present – although not as he intended. But one must accept pleasant gifts from the FG — even if it was accidental.

Lai Mohammed and I parted ways, as co-progressives, since his days as the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, when he and Olisa Metuh, his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic, Party, PDP, drenched the pages of Nigerian newspapers with rumours, half truths and absolute falsehood with reckless abandon. In an article titled, ‘M&M: The Two Most Dangerous Men in Nigeria’ in 2013, I listed several whoppers the two released without remorse just to win votes for their political parties.

As Minister of Information during the first term, Lai would be remembered for telling Nigerians that the “President is hale and hearty” when Buhari first went to London. Buhari eventually returned and his first words to reporters were “I have never been so sick in my life.” On another occasion, the Minister had visited Borno State under heavy security and had announced that “Boko Haram has been decimated”.

That was in 2016. Decimated Boko Haram is still terrorising parts of Borno and sacking army barracks and sending soldiers fleeing for dear lives till today. On January 1, 2020, the Minister told the truth in the one sentence above (title). Psychologists will call what he said a Freudian slip. It was not what he meant to say. But, it was the absolute truth.

"Buhari has driven corruption under the table.” Additionally, the APC has not only driven corruption under the Aso Rock table, it has also covered it with heavy velvet table cover to hide it more from view. Lai failed to add that small bit. But since the man has suddenly become my friend, I must help him out and provide the additional information.

The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, was eventually relieved of his post almost two and a half years after allegations of corrupt practices involving contracts associated with Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, were made.

Almost two years after the first allegations, the case is under a very large table at the Rock. At the rate the prosecution is going, the matter might outlast Buhari – if he departs in 2023 as it is now being advertised. We were alive when Abacha, Buhari’s friend and benefactor, promised not to participate in the transition programme he started.


We know what happened. Two people you cannot trust – politicians and African Heads of State. Remember the promises made to identify and punish those who allegedly padded the 2016 and 2017 budgets. Nearly N200 billion was said to be involved in the two budgets.

Till today, nobody has been identified or punished. That matter is also under the mahogany table at the Rock. No honest government will allow the accounts of its Ministries, Departments and Agencies to go without being audited. Certainly, no government with any reputation to protect will condone its officers’ refusal to answer audit queries.

No single MDA has had its accounts audited under Buhari. Aso Rock is setting a bad example for others to follow. Its accounts have not been audited since 2015. Whatever had been done with our money had been swept under the table. There is no need to list seriatim all the matters under that table. I just want to thank Lai for telling the truth.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/i-wholeheartedly-agree-with-lai-mohammed/

And covered it with a nice looking wall paper

I pray another party take over come 2023; that is when we will knw that this is the most corrupt government in Nigeria.

Even a new born baby is aware.
It's no longer news

In essence, Corruption is still standing giddy gba in the APC regime.The only difference is the modality it now takes-institutionalized corruption.

Citytrend:
Even a new born baby is aware.
It's no longer news

I can guessxwith 110% confidence what Buhari would say post 2023 when asked about the humongous corruption discovered throughout his 8yr tenure:
'I never knew people stole so much money under me".