Professor Yemi Osinbajo has opened a can of worms concerning the depth of political corruption in the Nigerian polity which has affected federal capital projects.
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that no volume of pressure or calls from the elites would derail President Muhammadu Buhari or himself from carrying the anti-corruption war to its logical conclusion, the Vanguard reports.
And that in the last 16 years there was not a single federal government completed road project including rail, as the cost of projects were inflated, saying that “The reason is corruption”.
Revealing that there had been a plethora of calls and efforts by the highly placed Nigerians to stop the probes, the Vice President stated that said both of them had no other agenda but “the progress of this country.”
Osinabjo spoke yesterday during a meeting in his office with a delegation from the Moslem Congress of Nigeria led Imam Abdulahi Shuaib at the presidential villa, Abuja. His submission was contained in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande.
According to the statement, the Vice President said that the development was a strange morality emanating from some Nigerians across ethnic and religious lines.
“We get regular messages from some Nigerian elites saying cool down. It is a very strange morality that some of those people have, very complicated but cutting across all tribes and religious differences.
“Mr. President and I are extremely focussed on what we need to do. We will focus on critical things, infrastructure and social investments”, he said.
Osinbajo who was miffed by the attitude however noted that the many Nigerians could still discern between what is right and wrong. He said “the masses don’t have that problem.”