*As President arrives Yola, visits Lamido Adamawa
By Kemi Kasumu, General Editor
Elder statesman and Chairman, 2015 Transition Committee of President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, has raised a serious question regarding the interest of the Nigerian Judiciary against the efforts being made by the President to rid Nigeria of the parasite, that corruption, singularly most identified as inhibiting its socio-economic growth and development.
Alhaji Joda raised this question while delivering his opening speech as Chairman Adamawa State Anti-Corruption Summit, organised by the statement government and attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, held in Yola, the state capital, on Tuesday.
Joda took the gathering down the memory lane to what the Nigerian situation was before the coming of President Buhari when, according to him, the entire security agencies in the country were compromised, weakened so much that they were completely incapacitated to face the challenges of insurgencies and other insecurity agents across the country at that time. He said the Nigerian economy at that time was in shamble just as corruption was the order of the day.
Noting that the coming to power of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2015 was based on a tripod stand of fighting corruption, fixing the already damaged economy and helping to defeat the insurgencies, The 87-year-old former super permanent secretary expressed satisfaction with the progress the President had made and has continued to make in those three areas, as he said the narrative of the ugly past had changed by the will deployed by the leadership style of the President.
President Buhari, who arrived Yola Airport afternoon of Tuesday, paid homage to the Lamido Adamawa and commissioned major projects initiated and completed by the Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Jibrilla-Bindow before he finally made it to the Government House auditorium where he was scheduled to flag off the Anti-Corruption Summit organised by the state government.
Also present at the Summit still ongoing as at the time of filing this report were Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other top federal regional government functionaries.
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