President Muhammadu Buhari ha revealed that his Party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) won the 2019 Presidential election due to the glaring endemic corruption that engulfed the country” during the regime of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government.
The president made this disclosure while declaring open the Corruption Risk Assessment training for heads and senior officials of Anti-Corruption Agencies in the African Union on Monday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The president asserted further that the “pervasive nature and devastating impact of corruption” across the country before the election was problematic. 
President Buhari stated that his government is doing all it can to hold anybody indicted for corruption to account, adding that he was doing a lot to institutionalize integrity and transparency.
“When we assumed office in May 2015, the pervasive nature and devastating impact of corruption on the Nigerian nation had made it become dysfunctional.
“The momentum for our electoral victory could not be separated from the revolt of the people against glaring endemic corruption.
“During the past several months, we have been taking steps to institute integrity and transparency in the processes of governance and holding those who have plundered our commonwealth to account for their actions.
“However, the costs of recovery and sanctions are also enormous. While commendable successes have been recorded, it has become manifest that corruption fights back.
“With enormous stolen resources, elements have attempted to compromise law enforcement institutions and pervert the course of justice,” he said.
President Buhari stated that the soul of African country is on the line if a comprehensive fight is not fought against corruption in the continent.
He, therefore, enjoined leaders to continue to implement policies that would build resilient systems to withstand assault by corrupt officials.
The President said that Nigeria, for its part, had taken steps in this direction.
He said the measures included full implementation of the Treasury Single Account and the Bank Verification Number, the Open Government Partnership, various Executive Orders, strengthening of anti-corruption agencies and permitting their full autonomy.
“It is in this context of building robust preventive systems that we must understand this initiative which aims to train leaders of anti-corruption agencies in the African Union by deploying Corruption Risk Assessment Methodology for corruption prevention in our countries.”
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