PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI PAID COURTESY CALL TO THE ARCHBISHOP AT LAMBETH PALACE

His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari carried on with his relentless diplomatic engagements up to the very last minute before leaving the UK.

Following the unfortunate slip of the tongue made by PM David Cameron about Nigeria supposedly being fantastically corrupt, Buhari saw an excellent opportunity to embark on a diplomatic assault intended to sell Nigeria's image in the eyes of the British public and the international community. And he went for it in earnest!

NIGERIA RULING CLASS: FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT, FANTASTICALLY BINEPT, FANTASTICALLY INCOMPETENT, AND FANTASTICALLY INSENSITIVE - JAYE GASKIA

President Buhari and British PM Cameron

I know that the most topical issue in Nigeria for a while now and particularly today, at least for the ordinary citizen is the lingering phenomenon of unavailability, scarcity and significant spike in the price of petrol. And for very obvious reasons, not the least today’s astronomical hike in the pump price of the product, this issue will continue to dominate public discourse and shape public action for some time to come.

So knowing and understanding this why do I appear to be focused on corruption and the congenital and historically intrinsic incompetence and ineptitude and insensitivity of the Nigeria ruling class? The reason is simple. The substrate of corruption powered by impunity has contributing significantly to the nurturing of the incompetence, ineptitude and insensitivity of Nigeria’s ruling elites is what has brought us to this penkelemesi, that is this state of peculiar mess to borrow from the immortal expression of one of Nigeria’s first republic leaders, the late Adelabu of Ibadan.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions in parliament the day after he was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth that leaders of some "fantastically corrupt" countries were due to attend his anti-corruption summit later this week.

Its western conspiracy, where are all the loots? UK is the safest haven for looted funds from middle east and developing african nations. Our wealth is stack in most LONDON properties. UK property market is known to be boom-built on blood money. How many Britons can afford an ordinary flat of 300,000-700,000£ outside London? Let alone of buying a £2m mansion in central London (ONLY EPL PLAYERS).