The Nigerian battle against corruption continues to rage with many more calls for the arrest of alleged corrupt officials, the security operatives have been given mandates, anyone can be arrested.
Calls have been made for the arrest of Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, and the presidency has reacted, this reaction and other quotes below tell a lot about events in Nigeria within the passing week.
1. “Nigeria cannot pay salaries and and we know they have no other source than to depend on salaries.”
President Muhammadu Buhari after seeing the enormity of the challenges facing the country when he assumed office in May 2015 said he felt like “absconding”.
2. “Four years is not enough for him to set Nigeria fully on the right path.”
A member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Hajia Fatima Mohammed, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari must contest for the position again in 2019 or members of the party will protest in the streets nationwide.
3. “I will pray, fast to God that Buhari agrees to contest in 2019. If he contests, Nigeria will be better for it.”
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that he will pray and fast to God that President Muhammadu Buhari agrees to contest in 2019.
4. “Corruption is not an ethnic thing, there is an equal representation in the stealing as no one operates with his or her ethnic group alone”
The presidency finally reacting to the question by some Nigerians on whether former president, Goodluck Jonathan will be arrested by the EFCC.
5. “Pay the money owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, rather than blackmail the region with such money.”
6. “The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up
Professor Wole Soyinka, vowing to destroy his American Green Card if Donald Trump is elected US president.
7. “You want to stop MMM but you can’t stop our leaders looting our economy dry,you people just want to see poor masses suffer
Nigerians reacting to the declaration of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that Mavrodi Money (MMM) is a big scam has not gone down well with many Nigerians.
8. “It is painful seeing people who are at the receiving end of all the senselessness of the Niger delta militants celebrating the destruction of oils installations.”
Nigerians react to the attack on Trans Forcados export line which was carried out late on Tuesday, November 1.
9. “Create a selfless platform for people to come together and become the custodian, part and parcel towards rebuilding this nation.
Taiwo Obasanjo, the former wife of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, saying that she has a divine command to float a new political party that will rescue Nigeria from sadistic power.
10. “Nigerians believed in us and entrusted us with the responsibility of leading this nation.”
Governor Rochas Okorocha, expressing concern over the performance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) since it came into power more than a year ago
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