Bugaje, who once rejected Buhari’s appointment says war against corruption ‘profoundly disappointing’

Dr. Usman Bugaje, a former Political Adviser to the presidency during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday declared that the current war against corruption by the adminstration of President Muhammadu Buhari has become ‘profoundly disappointing’.

Baguje, who spoke in Lagos at the 25th anniversary of the Sarkin Fulani of Lagos, Dr Mohammed Abubakar Bambado II, blamed the insurgency, farmers-herders crisis and ethnic clashes in the country on the manipulation by “incompetent politicians whose only way of winning is through this manipulation of religion and ethnicity.”

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Speaking further at the event attended by the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, among several other eminent personalities, Bugaje decried the unemployment rate in the country coupled with overpopulation, adding that if not arrested, poses a threat to the country.

He further stated that every Nigerian must be worried that the fight against corruption is being lost.

“The fight against corruption is to say the least profoundly disappointing”, he said.

Bugaje, an ambassadorial nominee from Katsina State, in 2016 had rejected the offer, stating that he wanted to stay home and help develop the north.

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