….. Challenges APC to Name Convicted Members of PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed the list of alleged
“looters” published by the Federal Government as hollow and laughable.
The party said the list is an extension of federal government media
trial and challenged it to come up names of its members against whom the
federal government had secured convictions.
The list put forward by the Federal Government as purported looters
amounts to a cheap blackmail as none of those listed have been indicted
or convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction or any panel of
enquiry in our country.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on
Friday, said the list issued by the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, only goes to show that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and
the Presidency have no prove of corruption against the PDP.
The party said in its frenzy and desperation, the federal government
even included names of individuals who are not standing trial or under
investigation for any act of corruption, as well as those who are not
even PDP members.
The Buhari-led Federal Government has manifested its frenzy by going
after matters that are in court and in which none of the persons have
been convicted, thus betraying their wickedness and desperation to
mislead the public, the court and divert attention from the heavy
looting involving their members.
We are not in doubt that the individuals he has mentioned will take
their legitimate stride and pursue appropriate action in the court.
However, attacks on individuals, who are members of our party, does not
in anyway detract from the fact that the PDP, as a political platform,
is not a party of corruption.
It is unfortunate that the APC and its government under whose watch
horrendous sleazes are happening on daily basis and a government that
has failed to fulfill the littlest of its campaign promises, can spend a
wholesome three years searching for flimsy allegations to discredit our
party and its members.
This is a government that is yet to account for $26 billion (N9
trillion) stolen through corrupt oil contracts in the NNPC, N1.1
trillion worth of crude diverted to service APC interests, N18 billion
Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) intervention fund stolen by APC
officials, including their former Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, the N10 billion National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for which members of the Buhari cabal were
indicted as well as the Mainagate, where the APC government recalled and
reinstated an individual indicted for scam running into billions of
naira.
This is in addition to cover provided for serving ministers indicted for
corrupt enrichment, among whom is a prominent former APC governor from
the southsouth, who was indicted by his state for stealing billions of
naira to fund President Buhari’s campaign in 2015.
We emphatically say that the PDP is on a rebound and such flimsy
allegations by the APC and its horde of looters, who stole humongous
wealth from their respective states of the federation to sponsor an
incompetent candidate in 2015, cannot stop us from challenging the
Federal Government to fulfill its campaign promises.
Since, the APC has decided to draw this attack, we will no longer hold
back but appropriately commence a serialization of all looters hiding in
APC and the Presidency.
