BEVERLY HILLS, February 01, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has described the judiciary as his main headache in the fight against corruption, pledging to overhaul the nation’s judicial system.
Buhari, who spoke at a town hall meeting with Nigerians living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday, recalled that corruption in the judiciary stalled his bid to become President for years.
He however showed his anger to the tribal claims and theft of oil by some individuals in the Niger Delta, lamenting that the international oil market had collapsed, resulting in poor income for the country.
According to the President, “On the fight against corruption vis-à-vis the judiciary, Nigerians will be right to say that is my main headache for now.
“If you reflect on what I went through for 12 years when I wanted to be the President, I attempted three times and on the fourth attempt through God and the use of technology, it was possible for Nigerians to elect an APC candidate as President.
“In my first attempt in 2003, I ended up at the Supreme Court and for 13 months I was in court. The second attempt in 2007, I was in court close to 20 months and in 2011, my third attempt, I was also in court for nine months.
“All these cases went up to the Supreme Court until the fourth time in 2015, when God agreed that I will be President of Nigeria.”
Buhari, while defending the N6.077trn 2016 budget which is now before the National Assembly, assured that the budget would be financed from non-oil revenue adding that the recovered assets of the country would also be used to reduce the budget deficit.
He further revealed that the proposed budget would focus on increasing efficiency and transparency in government operations and the blocking of leakages from revenue generating agencies.
The President then decried oil theft in Niger Delta stressing that, “The theft of the oil market by some Nigerians that happen to live there who feel that the oil belongs to them and not the country is an irritating thing for those of us who participated in the civil war for 30 months in which at least two million Nigerians were killed.”
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