By Ike Abonyi
“If you love
your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and
recklessness even from a President”
– DaShanne Stokes
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| *President Buhari |
At a conversation over a curtail in May 2016 by three
prominent British citizens, the then Prime Minister David Cameron, the
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Speaker of the British Parliament,
John Bercow at the Buckingham Palace to mark the 90th birthday of Queen
Elizabeth, Nigeria was the topic and the issue was a scheduled corruption
summit in United Kingdom.
The PM said: “We have some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries
coming to Britain Nigeria and Afghanistan
But the Archbishop intervened to say: “But this particular President in Nigeria
The speaker typical of a watchdog to government simply said: “They are coming
at their own expense, one assumes?”
If that set up is to repeat itself today, the PM would be standing on the same
position and would be right, but the Archbishop certainly would not provide
same defence he did 17 months ago given the myriads of corruption scandals
around the President and his henchmen.
