ABUJA - Presidency has said that the British
Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron still has
the "old snapshot" of what Nigeria was
before the coming of the President
Mohammadu Buhari administration to have
described it " fantastically corrupt",
alongside Afghanistan.
The Prime Minister while briefing the Queen
of England, Elizabeth 11, Tuesday, after a
cabinet meeting ahead of the Anti-
Corruption summit where the Nigerian
president is billed to give a keynote address
on Thursday tagged Nigeria a "fantastically
corrupt" nation.
But Cameron was countered by the
ArchBishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby who
reminded him that president Buhari was not
corrupt.
The prime minister had come under verbal
attacks from Nigerians who felt ridiculed by
the development which appeared to have
happened before a television camera without
Cameron's knowledge.
Reacting to the insult, the presidency
through the senior special assistant to
Buhari on media and publicity, Garba Shehu
said that the UK's remarks about Nigeria
was. It a reflective of the anti-corruption
stance of the present regime in Nigeria.
The presidency however appreciated the
Archbishop to rising in defence of Buhari.
"It is certainly not reflective of the good
work that the President is doing. The eyes
of the world are on what is happening here.
The Prime Minister must be looking at an
old snapshot of Nigeria. Things are changing
with corruption and everything else. That,
we believe is the reason they chose him as
a keynote speaker at the the pre-summit
conference.
"Thank you to the Archbishop. We very
much cherish the good relationship between
our two countries and nothing should stand
in the way of improving those relations", the
presidency said.
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