{"id":917547,"date":"2022-01-19T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/why-corrupt-politicians-cant-wait-for-buharis-term-to-end\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:15:59","slug":"why-corrupt-politicians-cant-wait-for-buharis-term-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/why-corrupt-politicians-cant-wait-for-buharis-term-to-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Corrupt Politicians Can\u2019t Wait For Buhari\u2019s Term To End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_835925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835925\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-835925 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/president-buhari-reportedly-approves-the-lifting-of-the-suspension-of-twitter-operation-in-nigeria-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Garba Shehu: Why Corrupt Politicians Can\u2019t Wait For Buhari\u2019s Term To End\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buhari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many corrupt political elites, according to presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu, cannot wait for President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s term to end.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, whose campaign in 2015 was anchored on the fight against corruption, is expected to complete a second term in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Shehu stated in a statement on Tuesday that the elites wish to return to the days when corruption reigned supreme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0How Battle Against Corruption Can Be Won In Nigeria\u2014 IBB<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_c46 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some politicians, he claims, are also dissatisfied that the president did not benefit financially from his position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many in the political elites of this country cannot wait for the President\u2019s second term in office to end,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey yearn for a return to the \u2018good old days\u2019 of helping themselves to public funds with abandon, the easy export of ill-gotten money to foreign bank accounts, of acting without responsibility, accountability, or censure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing they want is \u2018another Buhari\u2019, the statement partly read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buhari Many corrupt political elites, according to presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu, cannot wait for President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s term to end. Buhari, whose campaign in 2015 was anchored on the fight against corruption, is expected to complete a second term in 2023. Shehu stated in a statement on Tuesday that the elites wish to return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}