The Minister of Information, culture and tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC didn’t envisage the height of corruption it met in office when it came on board on May 2015.
Mohammed however noted that despite the rottenness in virtually all spheres of public life, the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration has drastically reduced the level of madness, indiscipline and impunity in Nigeria.
The Minister also insisted that the change the party promised Nigerians was already manifesting. In his words: “There is a change today in the way people view corruption than the way they use to view it before. You will never live your flamboyant lifestyle again.
“In 2014 or thereabout when the former President went to Kenya, there were about 100 private jets that went with him.
“Let’s look at it, number one, we promised change and that change has come. There is change today from impunity to accountability and it means a lot. There is a change today from corruption to integrity, it means a lot.
“What we did not know was the level of dirt and rottenness, the level of dirt and corruption is what we did not get. We knew things were bad but we did not know things were this bad.
“We did not know before we came in that there was no savings at all.
“Also, we did not know before we came in, the madness and scale of indiscipline and impunity.
“It doesn’t matter what vision you have but if you don’t have the money to execute it is as if you are doing nothing.
“So if anybody says we are overwhelmed, yes we are overwhelmed but not by the work but by the level of rottenness and we want to clean this rottenness and this is what we have been doing,” Mohammed stated.