A statement released today by the VP’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, quoted Mr. Osinbajo, a former professor of law, as telling a delegation of the Moslem Congress of Nigeria that the government received “regular messages from some Nigerian elites saying cool down.”
The VP told the delegation that those Nigerians advocating a brake on the fight against corruption have “a very strange morality,” adding that those championing a halt to the government’s anti-corruption fight cut “across all tribes and religious differences.” Mr. Osinbajo noted, however, that the Nigerian masses had a clearer understanding of right and wrong, and were fully behind the anti-corruption crusade.
