President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted the outlandish claims from some quarters that Nigeria’s corruption has grown under his leadership describing them as wild and misguided barbs with political undertones.

Jonathan speaking in an exclusive interview with Aljazeera, on Monday night, said that despite the country’s position in the global corruption perception index, the perception that corruption has worsened under his administration is inaccurate.

In 2014, Transparency International ranked Nigeria was ranked 136th out of 175 countries and territories, with a score of 27.

According to Transparency International’s rating system, a country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

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