The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has on Tuesday responded to David Cameron, The UK Prime Minster’a comment where he described Nigerian as a “Fantastically corrupt” country.
The President, Muhammadu Buhari described the comment as embarrassing.
In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Garba Shehu, shortly after the news of the Prime Minister’s comment went viral on the Internet, the a president said:
“This is embarrassing to us, to us say the least, given the good work that the President is doing, Mr. Buhari said. “The eyes of the world are on what is happening here.”
He continued in the statement that the “Prime Minister must be looking at an old snapshot of Nigeria. Things are changing with corruption and everything else”.
The president however applauded the comment by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who said President Buhari was not corrupt.
Acknowledging the Archbishop’s remark, he said: “Thank you to the Archbishop. We have great admiration for the good relationship between our two countries,”
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