By Sufuyan Ojeifo
The resolution of
three episodes of corruption between 1999 and 2005 in the federal
legislature and the executive arm of government under the presidency of
Olusegun Obasanjo had initially indicated the seeming gravitas of that
administration. But, to be sure, it was not Obasanjo’s persona or the
magnitude of his philosophical swagger that gave fillip to the seriousness
attached to the anti-corruption actions, which fatally extinguished the luminous
epochs of some politicians and public office holders at the time.
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| *Kemi Adeosun |
The soberness, in
fact, derived from the interplay of the unfortunate tomfoolery in
government and the collective appreciation as well as interrogation by
Nigerians of the universal concepts of good and bad or right and wrong that
defined public perception of governmental interactions in the ecology of the
nation’s prevalent cloak-and-dagger politics. The whiff of that political
correctness had conferred on the administration a false garb of propriety in
official conducts and public finance management.
