By Bright Emenena
Lest we forget, like many past government, this administration
rode to power on the back of the promise to fight corruption. It is safe
to say though, that more than any previous administration, the present
administration comes top on the perception that a government will actually
fight corruption. For many Nigerians, the one reason why this government was
voted into power was the belief that corruption which was perceived as the
problem of Nigeria
shall be brought to a stop.
President Buhari then General Buhari was the symbol of this
perception. For many who voted for him, he was an embodiment of integrity, a
man capable of doing no evil, an incorruptible disciplinarian and in their
view, was what Nigeria needed at the
time. He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the
presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military
head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most
corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a
petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency
that was also alleged of corruption. This was perceived by his supporters as
evidence of his incorruptibility.