Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, Garbu Shehu, on Monday said influential people in Nigeria are fighting president Muhammadu Buhari because he stopped their privileges. Shehu said this while speaking with journalists at the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja.
Mr Garba, who had paid the national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole a visit said Buhari has blocked access to national resources by lazy people and so, he is being fought not because people are not happy.
The problem is that the competition for power in the country has become fiercer and fiercer because the stakes are very high and I will give you one example.
"The President has unleashed on the country a war against corruption, the type that has never been seen before. Assets are being recovered from powerful people. The President is lucky that he has a judiciary which is transforming itself and on the same page with the President in righting corruption.
"As I speak with you, you know that two former state governors are in jail. A lot of people thought that this war against corruption is a joke and that the back and forth that has characterised the process over time will continue.
"We have on record that we have people in this country, that because they were influential, they have permanent suites attached to them in Abuja.