‘President is surrounded by some very corrupt people,’ Tam David-West says

David-West however said, in an interview with The Sun, that the president himself is a man of integrity.

“The president is my friend and I always tell him the people around him are corrupt. Buhari is clean,” he said.

“I have worked with him and I can enter fire because of him; but a lot of people around him are very corrupt and until he kicks them out of his government, the country cannot move forward. Nigeria is a great country.

“There are a lot of people using government positions to influence things for themselves. When I was minister of petroleum, I had only three refineries and I was exporting petrol and the country was moving on well. President Buhari needs to clean up his house.

“I did not influence any contract to my favour or steal money when I was in government. People even made fun of me, that I was taking only tea,” he added.

President Buhari, in April, suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, over corruption allegations.

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Lawal is alleged to have mismanaged funds meant for the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE).