According to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, President Muhammadu
Buhari’s utterances outside Nigeria was the reason the British Prime
Minister, David Cameron, described Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt”
country.
“What do you expect from the international community when the president
of a nation keeps going abroad to say that his people are corrupt?” a
statement signed by his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, queried.
He also said it was annoying that President Buhari said he was
embarrassed and shocked by Mr. Cameron’s comment. Instead of telling
Nigerians that he was shocked, Buhari should apologise to Nigerians for
de-marketing the country and his people, he said.
He noted that it was on record that the President had said in United
Kingdom that “Nigerians’ reputation for crime has made them unwelcome in
Britain” and went on to warn Nigerians to stop trying to make asylum
claims in Britain, saying that their reputation for criminality has made
it hard for them to be accepted abroad.
“When a president mounts the podium in foreign lands and gleefully says
that his own people are criminals, that they are corrupt and that those
abroad should be sent back home, why won’t presidents of other countries
brand all citizens of such a country as fantastically corrupt?
“Rather than this grandstanding from the presidency, conceited efforts
should be made to redeem the image of Nigeria that the president has
destroyed.”
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