Nigeria: Making a Mockery of Anti-Corruption War

29 March 2015

Many politicians are out in the field cajoling the electorate for votes using anti- corruption messages. They have correctly read the mood of the electorate and understand how anti-corruption message resonate with them. Now, every politician who fancies his chance to win an elective office sings the anti- corruption song.

Much as the prominence given to anti-corruption issues in current campaign by aspirants to the political leadership of our dear country is a welcome development, a situation where people, either certified to be corrupt or have pending corruption cases hanging around their necks, now come around to lecture Nigerians on how they will fight corruption is perhaps the greatest insult of the current campaign.

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