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British Prime Minister David Cameron rubbished Nigeria in a secretly taped conversation with Queen Elizabeth of England, it emerged today.
Mr. Cameron described Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” in a conversation with the Queen, a BBC report said.
This is despite the fact that Afghanistan was ranked at 167 in Transparency International’s 2015 corruption perception index and Nigeria 136.
The PM was talking about this week’s anti-corruption summit in London, for which Buhari has showed much enthusiasm and is scheduled to leave for tonight.
“We’ve got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain... Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world,” Mr Cameron said, according to a BBC report.
It said that after Mr Cameron’s comments, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby intervened to say: “But this particular president is not corrupt... he’s trying very hard,” before Speaker John Bercow said: “They are coming at their own expense, one assumes?”
BBC said the archbishop was believed to have been referring to President Buhari, who takes pleasure in painting Nigeria as a corrupt nation during his numerous foreign trips.
“The conversation took place at Buckingham Palace at an event to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday,” the report said.
•Photo shows British PM Cameron.
