The Presidency says the nation’s poor ranking on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index, is a reflection of corruption by Nigerians and not by the current administration.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari, made this known in a State on Monday.
“i will tell you that this one by TI is not a judgment on Buhari or his administration or its war against corruption, I will tell you that this one is a judgment on Nigerians because if you look at the indices they used at arriving at these conclusions, they used eight indices, six of which showed Nigeria as being more or less Nigeria in the same position,” he said.
“The two that they dwelled on, that caused this backslide, are essentially Nigerian problems. They’re talking about the political culture of this country, vote-buying, thuggery. Is it Buhari that is a thug?” he added.
The TI’s report had named Nigeria, the second most corrupt nation in West Africa and 149 out of 180 countries.
