The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari as the best since Nigeria got independence from Great Britain in 1960.
The group stated this in a statement on Tuesday by its director, Ishaq Akintola.
MURIC argued that corruption has been Nigeria’s major problem and that Buhari’s administration had dealt decisively with it.
“We adjudge the Buhari administration as the best in post-independence Nigeria. Everyone agrees that corruption is the bane of Nigeria’s development. All other factors are peripheral but corruption is tangential. This implies that Nigeria will overcome all its challenges once corruption has been reduced to its barest minimum,” the statement read.
“This explains why President Muhammadu Buhari has been consistently consistent in tackling graft since his days as military head of state (1983-85) till today. Apart from the War Against Indiscipline (WAI), the period heralded transparency, probity, and accountability in the public sphere.
“Unfortunately corrupt elements in society have also been fighting tooth and nail to frustrate his efforts. These include, but are not limited to, rapaciously greedy civil servants, a superfluously voracious business class and avariciously glutinous politicians.
“They were behind the 1985 coup which ousted the no-nonsense Buhari-Idiagbon regime. That coup was an anti-people action sponsored by established kleptomaniacs and executed by greedy, corrupt and overambitious elements in the military. That singular action also returned Nigeria to the path of unbridled waste, reckless graft, and undiluted consumerism.”
The group also criticised the eight National Assembly led by former Senate President Bukola Saraki and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.
“Unfortunately the second coming of President Buhari in 2015 as a civilian president was almost castrated as the National Assembly was hijacked from the very beginning courtesy of ‘sarakitisation’ and ‘dogaratisation’ of parliamentary process. The president himself nearly lost his life,” MURIC said.
The group hailed Buhari for his fight against Boko Haram insurgents, saying that the killer group had been confined to the north-east unlike when it used to record heavy casualties in places like Kano and Abuja before 2015.
