Buhari Won’t Resign Over NDDC, NSITF, EFCC Probes, FG Insists

The Federal Government has said President Muhammadu Buhari would not resign over alleged cases of corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The Federal Government also described the call for the resignation of Buhari as infantile.
It further said that the anti-graft war was not waning, adding that the government would not spare anyone implicated in corrupt practices.
The All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others for celebrating alleged cases of corruption in some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the government’s positions known at a press briefing in Abuja, yesterday.
Mohammed said those thinking the anti-corruption war was dying were engaging in wishful thinking.
He said Nigerians have recently been inundated with allegations of monumental corruption in a number of government agencies, including the NDDC, NSITF, and the anti-corruption agency, EFCC.
The minister said, “Many, especially naysayers, have misinterpreted these developments as a sign that the administration’s fight against corruption is waning.
“In fact, the main opposition PDP has latched on to the developments to call for the resignation of Mr President, a call that is nothing but infantile!
“Let me state here and now that the fight against corruption, a cardinal programme of this administration, is alive and well.
“President Muhammadu Buhari, the African Union’s Anti-Corruption Champion, who also has an impeccable reputation globally, remains the driver of the fight and no one, not the least the PDP under whose watch Nigeria was looted dry, can taint his image or reverse the gains of the fight.
“Anyone who disagrees that the anti-corruption fight is alive and well is free to dare us.”
He also explained that the present regime has recovered looted funds in excess of N800billion.