The British Prime Minister, David Cameron is trending on Twitter today after he was caught on video saying that Nigeria is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Nigeria & Afghanistan to be exact.
The Prime Minister forgot his mic was on while boasting to the Queen of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury – Justin Welby and Commons Speaker John Bercow at an event at Buckingham Palace to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday, when he made remark about “fantastically corrupt countries Nigeria & Afghanistan attending his anti corruption summit”, which just took place in London.
He said,
We had a very successful cabinet meeting this morning. We talked about our anti-corruption summit. We’ve got…leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain. Nigeria and Afghanistan are possibly two of the most corrupt countries in the world”.After Cameron’s comments, Justin Welby spoke in Buhari’s defense saying, “But this particular president is not corrupt… he’s trying very hard”
And the Queen backed him up adding, “He’s trying”
President Buhari who has had a few friendly meetings with Cameron is said to be embarrassed by his British counterpart’s comment.
Watch the video & read the tweets below:
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