…Insists FG Has No Case Against PDP.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the Presidency and the All
Progressives Congress (APC) have failed in their ploy to use their
so-called looters lists to divert public discourse from the raging
questions on their numerous scandals, manifest sleazes and overall
failures in governance.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola
Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday, said the nation has now seen that the Federal
Government has no case against the PDP, as the lists only have
individuals who are not indicted or convicted for corruption, some of
who are not even members of the PDP.
It is now a notorious fact that the whole essence of the flimsy and
contemptible lists was to cause public misperception, ‘change the
topic’, and divert international and national discourse from various
serious issues including;
1. The parlous state of the nation’s economy caused by President
Muhammadu Buhari’s misrule, for which Nigerians are now resorting to
vices, including slavery and suicide as options.
2. The intensive global vote of no confidence on President Buhari-led
APC-government, particularly on its painful anti-people policies, as
presented in damning verdicts by international figures, the latest being
the world renowned Bill Gates.
3. The vote of no confidence on the Buhari administration by eminent
statesmen, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former military
President Ibrahim Babangida and former minister of defence and ex-chief
of army staff, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, who also indicted this
administration of failure to protect the citizens.
4. The international interest over speculations of conspiracy theorem on
the alleged manipulation of security in the abduction and return of the
Dapchi schoolgirls for which Amnesty International (AI) has called for
an open inquest.
5. The international embarrassment over alleged procurement of the
Martin Luther King Jr Award for President Buhari, which has now
attracted global opprobrium to our dear nation and entire citizenry.
6. The Transparency International (TI) latest verdict, indicting the
Buhari-led government of superintending over the spiraling of corruption
in Nigeria in the last three years.
7. Efforts by the Buhari Presidency to conceal the N9 trillion corrupt
oil contracts at the NNPC, alleged stealing of N1.1 trillion worth of
crude oil, looting of N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)
intervention fund and the stealing of N10 billion National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS), all by APC officials and Presidency cabal.
8. The public resentment that trailed President Buhari’s last week’s
visit to Lagos as well as his embarrassment at the National Mosque last
Friday, where worshippers demonstrated their resentments to his
administration and almost resorted to near mob action.
These are issues that cannot be swept under the carpet using any ploy
whatsoever.
While we still challenge the APC to name any members of the repositioned
and rebranded PDP convicted for corruption, we wish to remind them that
our three-day ultimatum to explain the source of looted fund to finance
President Buhari’s 2015 campaign still subsist and no amount of
blackmail or intimidation can stop Nigerians from holding the
dysfunctional APC accountable.
