Is FG jittery over its anti-corruption policy?

In from Victor Ebimomi …
On Monday August 17, an unexpected incident played out in front of Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Thousands of youths under the aegis of “Nigerians March Against Corruption” marched on the place, without the usual harassment by the security agents that ring the villa in a terrifying manner.
Instead they seemed to give protection to the youths led by one Aisha Yesufu, as they only stood by to watch the group who said they came on a solidarity visit to the Villa to support the FG’s anti-corrupt war.
By the group’s name and mission, it could be regarded as a patriotic one because if there is any disease that has eaten deep into the very fabric of the nation, it is corruption. In fact, in the time past it walk the streets and could fit in as the middle name of virtually all public office holders across the three tiers of government.
So on assuming office on May 29 this year, Buhari had promised that treasury looters can never go free. Without wasting time, he went into action as some suspects became guest of the anti-graft agencies; the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Department of the State Security (DSS).
Not many a Nigerian grumbled at the way and manner the anti-corruption war is being prosecuted. But members of the opposition party, the People Democratic Party (PDP), have been grumbling more, saying the exercise was one-sided and targeted at them. As a matter of fact, the outcries against the corruption war came from the lowly and mighty in the society with some even telling the FG to jettison the idea outright for now and face the business of governance.

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It is against the public reactions that some analysts said that there is something more than meets the eyes in the rally.
Some even argued that perhaps the FG is becoming jittery a result of the negative comments by many Nigerians who are opposed to the way and manner the anti-corruption fight is being handled.
Others even regretted that the old syndrome of rented crowd is back to the Nigeria political scene despite the steely nature of Buhari.
Some other analysts even claimed that the fact that the youths were warmly welcomed by the Media Adviser to the president, Femi Adesina, who praised the youths to high heavens logically validate their belief that those ‘guys might just indeed be a rented crowd’.

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