A Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Babafemi Badejo has stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government will be worse than former President, Muhammadu Buhari- who was himself woeful in the area of tackling corruption in the country. Badejo stated this during his first inaugural lecture Titled: “Interest” at Chrisland University, Abeokuta in Ogun State. Adding that, successive administrations have not faced corruption head-on with political will.
He stated that Tinubu, judging from his actions in the last one month, would do better than Buhari in other areas, but not in the fight against corruption.
“It is my own view that former President Muhammadu Buhari failed woefully on the issue of anti-corruption. He did start by wanting to implement the UN anti-corruption’s strategy and went further to appoint a Committee which did nothing till today.”
“On President Tinubu, it is too early to give a conclusion, but I can say that from what he has done in one month, he will do by far better than Buhari, but not on corruption”.
“Though possibly a hasty conclusion, I do not think the objective realities would allow President Tinubu to do any better, even if he ever wanted to fight corruption. The resultant outcome is unfruitful half-heartedly done prosecutorial gimmicks and noise, cherry-picking and selective haphazard trials”.
“There is need to ensure that in dealing with corruption, no one is immune or beyond the reach of the laws, by virtue of whatever relationships or status. This is indeed very important as part of steps by the President and those in top leadership positions, to begin to demonstrate their commitment to the anti-corruption war, through their personal examples of zero tolerance for corruption.”