Mr Peter Obi referred to many officials at the Nigerian government today as “Yahoo Boys.”
The former presidential candidate of Labour Party was a guest speaker at Nexford University’s 4th graduation ceremony in Lagos when he said that.
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Charging the graduands to combine the knowledge they acquired with strength of character and hard work, Obi said his generation and the generations before failed the country.
“You are a victim of Nigeria because our age and the age before have refused to do what is right, and you are suffering it,” the former Governor of Anambra State said.
Obi, who was widely believed to have won the 2023 presidential election but was denied the position even in the court, has since turned the most vocal critic of President Bola Tinubu’s administrations.
He is known for his frugality and for his relentless advocate for cutting government spending at all tiers. Obi told Nexford that there are more thieves inside the government than there are in the wider society.
“There are actually more Yahoo people in government than there are outside because we have turned the entire country into a crime scene where people inside are stealing, and people outside are stealing,” he said.
In another development, Muhuyi Rimingado, the chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), has been arrested for high profile corrupt practices.
He was taken to Abuja for questioning over missing N4 billion.
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