The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, said on Tuesday that President Muhammadu Buhari has been Nigeria’s best leader since independence in 1960.
The group said this in a statement signed by its director, Ishaq Akintola.
According to the group, corruption which has been the country’s major problem has been decisively dealt with by Buhari’s administration.
It noted that Buhari has been consistent in fighting corruption from his days as military head of state.
It, however accused the 8th National Assembly led by Dr. Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara of nearly truncating Buhari‘s second coming in 2015 as a civilian President.
MURIC further commended the president for fighting Boko Haram which it said has been confined to the North-east part of the country.
The statement read: “We adjudge the Buhari administration as the best in post-independence Nigeria. Everyone agrees that corruption is the bane of Nigeria’s development. All other factors are peripheral but corruption is tangential. This implies that Nigeria will overcome all its challenges once corruption has been reduced to its barest minimum.
“This explains why President Muhammadu Buhari has been consistently consistent in tackling graft since his days as military head of state (1983-85) till today. Apart from the War Against Indiscipline (WAI), the period heralded transparency, probity, and accountability in the public sphere.
“Unfortunately corrupt elements in society have also been fighting tooth and nail to frustrate his efforts. These include, but are not limited to, rapaciously greedy civil servants, a superfluously voracious business class and avariciously glutinous politicians.
“They were behind the 1985 coup which ousted the no-nonsense Buhari-Idiagbon regime. That coup was an anti-people action sponsored by established kleptomaniacs and executed by greedy, corrupt and overambitious elements in the military. That singular action also returned Nigeria to the path of unbridled waste, reckless graft, and undiluted consumerism.
“Unfortunately the second coming of President Buhari in 2015 as a civilian president was almost castrated as the National Assembly was hijacked from the very beginning courtesy of ‘sarakitisation’ and ‘dogaratisation’ of parliamentary process. The president himself nearly lost his life.”
