Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade is not an ethnic battle because it is not aimed at prosecuting anyone from any specific ethnic group.
The Vice President said this while receiving members of the Yoruba Traditional Council in the northern states and Abuja, led by the chairman, His Royal Highness, Ambassador Mohammed Arigbabuwo.
Osinbajo said “When there is a fight against corruption, it is not an ethnic fight; it is not an ethnic battle. People can come up with all sorts of things and say it is selective.
“People say the reason why a man is being tried for corruption is because he is a Yoruba man, or he is from the North or from the South. We should not encourage this kind of ideas.
“The history of the world shows that corruption has ruined many empires.
“When those empires attain greatness and they begin to allow corruption, then they collapse.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has committed this current government to a pathway of integrity. For the first time, I think in a very long time, the president is saying that this country can only move forward if we show ourselves as men and women of integrity.”
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