Press
Statement
The Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu Buhari has no moral rectitude
to fight corruption being a direct beneficiary of the corruption freebies
deployed by his party leaders to fund his 2015 presidential campaign.
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| *President Buhari |
The party
said the President who declared that he had no resources to run a presidential
campaign in 2015 ought to have known, particularly as a leader, that the
billions of naira deployed for his campaigns were proceeds of corrupt
activities of known All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and leaders.
The party
further challenged Buhari to make open the sources of fund available to his
campaign in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 race as well as the names of the donors.
The PDP
said it is particularly interested in the fund allegedly provided by a
South-south governor for the 2011 presidential election as well as how the cost
of litigation was paid by then Buhari Campaign.
The PDP, in
a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on
Saturday, said the APC and the Federal Government cannot list names of looters
and attempt to shy away from the fact that President Buhari and his party are
direct beneficiaries of fund looted by APC governors.
The party
said President Buhari and his party leaders have huge confessions to make on
how they raked in state stolen resources to prosecute elections of 2015.
If the
Federal Government and the APC are serious about fighting corruption and not
just out to persecute PDP members, they should have began with the probe into the
source of the billions of naira used for President Buhari’s 2015 presidential
campaigns, particularly in the face of allegations that the fund was looted
from treasuries of various APC states.
The PDP
asked: Can President Buhari in all honesty claim ignorance of reports in the open
media that a South-south governor looted several billions from his state
accounts and diverted the sums into Buhari’s 2015 campaigns?
Can the
Presidency and the APC inform Nigerians what steps the Federal Government has
taken to investigate this allegation, which has been in public domain and to
clarify their roles as beneficiaries of the alleged looted funds?
If they are
not complicit, why are they not demanding the truth in the matter and the
possible refund of the fund for the good of the people?
We
challenge President Buhari to tell Nigerians what he has done regarding the
leaked memo showing N9 trillion ($25billion dollars) corrupt oil contracts at
the NNPC as well as the alleged stealing of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil,
all in a sector under his direct purview as minister of Petroleum.
The
Presidency should tell Nigerians what has been done to recover the stolen N18
billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) intervention fund and the N10
billion National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) fund alleged to have been
stolen from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by APC officials and Presidency
cabal.
Furthermore,
the Buhari Presidency must immediately explain why it has been providing cover
for the cabinet minister reported to have bought a property worth N280 million
in Abuja
How can a
President who enjoys the company of perjurer, looters and is never aware of the
activities of corrupt people around him, fight the menace of corruption?
Indeed,
Nigerians have pulled off the facade of lies and propaganda of the Buhari
Presidency and APC deception machinery and what they see now is the stark
pretentiously sanctimonious Buhari Presidency.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
National Publicity Secretary
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