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‘There has never been a government as corrupt as Buhari’s,’ Datti Baba-Ahmed says

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  • Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed called Muhammadu Buhari’s administration the most corrupt government Nigeria has experienced.
  • He said corruption would prevent President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies, including fuel-subsidy removal and foreign-exchange unification, from succeeding.
  • Baba-Ahmed also accused Buhari’s administration of failing to deliver a credible 2023 election and alleged that the IREV electronic results platform was switched off.

Former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed has delivered a sweeping condemnation of Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, calling it the most corrupt government Nigeria has ever experienced.

Whatever policy, however beautiful it is you bring, that is laced with corruption, it will never work.

· Yusuf Datti Baba-AhmedHe argued that corruption would undermine any economic policy.

Speaking on MIC On Podcast With Seun Okinbaloye, Baba-Ahmed was asked to assess President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies, including the removal of the fuel subsidy and the unification of the foreign-exchange market. He argued that even well-designed policies could not succeed while corruption remained embedded in government.

“Whatever policy, however beautiful it is you bring, that is laced with corruption, it will never work,” he said. He attributed what he called Buhari’s spectacular failure in office to corruption, while also accusing the former administration of failing to keep its promise of a free and fair 2023 election.

Why did Buhari fail so spectacularly? It’s because of corruption, I’m sorry. May his soul be rest in peace. All of us are on that journey, and we’ll go and account for what we did.

· Yusuf Datti Baba-AhmedHe explained his assessment of Buhari’s record in office.

Baba-Ahmed said the electronic results platform IREV was switched off on election day, forcing officials to record results manually. “Late Baba Buhari of blessed memory was promising the whole world this election would be credible. On Saturday, they switched off IREV, and they were writing the results by hand, and they violated the constitution,” he alleged.

There has never been a corrupt government like Buhari’s government, and immoral government like Buhari’s government.

· Yusuf Datti Baba-AhmedHe described Buhari’s administration in strongly condemnatory terms.

He warned that Tinubu’s policies would face the same difficulties if corruption undermined their implementation. Baba-Ahmed was Peter Obi’s running mate in the 2023 presidential election, in which their Labour Party ticket finished third behind Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Late Baba Buhari of blessed memory was promising the whole world this election would be credible. On Saturday, they switched off IREV, and they were writing the results by hand, and they violated the constitution.

· Yusuf Datti Baba-AhmedHe alleged that the electronic results platform was disabled during the 2023 election.
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Originally published by Vanguard in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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