The Presidency on Thursday said those protesting for President Muhammadu Buhari to resign were trying to derail the war against corruption.

In a statement, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the group was “an illegal assembly stealthily organised to deliver a blow to the war against corruption.”

He said this while receiving members of the Centre for Civil Society and Justice, a civil society coalition who staged a rally in support of President Muhammadu Buhari at the precincts of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said, “It might be taken for granted that the beneficiaries of the old order are fighting back. We have been warned that corruption will fight back. In a country where just one woman for having the opportunity to serve as minister has N47.2 billion and 487.5 million Dollars of public resources in cash and property traced to her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, you don’t expect the beneficiaries of that order to allow the Buhari administration some peace.

“They want to distract us. But what the Acting President wants to assure patriotic citizens is that the government will not bend.

“As far the President is concerned, he has done the needful by handing the reins of authority to the Vice President. Since the law of the country does not give a time limit for the President’s return, it cannot be imposed by a saber-rattling group or individual.”

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