Dr Tanko Yakassai, has described the anti- corruption efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari administration as a mere propaganda war.

Elder statesman and former political adviser to
ex-president Shehu Shagari, Alhaji Tanko
Yakasai, has said that Buhari is insincere with
his anti corruption campaign.
The elder statesman and presidential liaison
Officer in the second republic, has lamented
that Buhari’s bias antigraft campaign has
unfortunately won over right thinking men like
Prof Wole Soyinka.
Dr Yakassai, who also chairs the Northern
Elders’ Council, told newsmen in Abuja that
any fight against corruption must be holistic
rather than being centred on just an
individual.
He scolded the Buhari-led administration for
its open disregard for valid court orders
urging him to obey all court orders relating to
the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col
Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
Vanguard reports that the statesman said
Buhari can only be taken seriously if he
extends his antigraft campaign across the
inter-party divide as well as to other tiers of
government.
He said: “The federal government of Nigeria is
only fighting Sambo Dasuki. Should the fight
against corruption begin and end with Dasuki?
Is he the only “corrupt” person? Till today,
they have not even started his case in the
court. He was granted bail twice and they
refused to let him go. This is not a fight
against corruption. It is a propaganda fight.
“They even convinced people like Prof Wole
Soyinka who now believes that there is a fight
against corruption, but there is no such thing.
Otherwise, how many people have they
arrested?
“All the people that are arrested today are
connected with Dasuki. No other person has
been picked. What of the governors, ministers,
top civil servants and local government
officials? Can you fight one person and say
you are fighting corruption?”
Yakassai who was recently speculated as one
of the prominent Nigerians whose names
feature prominently on the list of those who
benefited from the scandalous $2.1billion
arms deal, traced the menace of corruption to
the military era, saying their incursion into
politics in 1966 and 1983 only helped to teach
politicians how to rob the nation.