Nigeria's political class ply him with expensive gifts to corrupt him.
These are interesting times for Yusuf Buhari. The first son and Personal Assistant (P.A) of President Muhammadu Buhari can neither soften into a naïveté below the meekness of infancy to think all men virtuous nor can he afford to be tainted by the deviousness and guilty pleasures characteristic of the truly vile and corruptThrough the fog of warmth and political patronage shown him by various sections of the Nigerian political class, Yusuf struggles to attain clarity of vision as he engages in a never-ending quest to decipher between sincere friends and acquaintances and otherwise. No sooner did his father emerge President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria than he became the sweetheart of Nigeria's self-seeking political class.
As you read, a lot of people comprising politicians, lobbyists and businessmen are trying to woo him by plying him with gifts of expensive cars among other things. But Yusuf, like his dad, President Buhari, seem to be immune to the lure of such compromising luxury. The young dude continually turns down offers of help and rejects without hesitation, such compromising gifts and unsolicited expression of goodwill. Sadly and to the chagrin of his close relatives, some of his very close friends have been mounting pressure on him to accept the gifts. The Capital findings revealed that some of them have even started accepting the gifts on his behalf, without his knowledge. Let's hope the president's son will do the needful and expunge such corruptible characters from his retinue of friends lest they permanently soil his image and that of his father. Given the clout and stature of the people desperately seeking to woo him with gifts, his father, President Buhari, might need to intervene before they succeed in corrupting his dear son and contaminating his presidency.
"That article is very false. Nobody is wooing me with anything." Yusuf Buhari
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