May 29, 2026
By Soni Daniel, Editor, Northern Region
As the country edges closer to the 2027 election cycle, the central question surrounding Tinubu’s anti-corruption campaign increasingly revolves around whether the administration is building a genuinely institutional accountability framework or presiding over a politically selective enforcement system shaped by alliances, defections and elite power calculations.
Since taking office on May 29, 2023, the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu has consistently flaunted anti-corruption enforcement as one of its defining governance priorities, leaning heavily on the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to demonstrate action against graft.
Official figures released by the presidency and the EFCC show that the anti-graft agency secured more than 7,000 convictions and recovered over N500 billion within the administration’s first two years, including a record 4,111 convictions in 2024 alone.
