The Presidency on Friday advised
Nigerians to be cautious of the “less-than-honest apology offered by the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Mr. Uche Secondus.
According to a statement by the
Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, apology was not
enough.
He urged the PDP to cough out
what has been stolen.
He said that the point made by
the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, is apt and on cue, that there
are heavy moral duties that go with apologies if the culprits want to be taken
seriously.
He said “The PDP is desperate to
recapture power because it no longer has unhindered access to national
resources for private uses and its apology should be seen in this context.
“The PDP has not even
acknowledged the fact that it plundered the national economy, and for a party
that dismissed the anti-corruption war as a political witch hunt, it is
impossible to believe that its public apology comes from the bottom of the
heart.
“Even desperate thieves apologize
because they are caught and not because they are incapable of repeating the
crime if they had another opportunity.
“We believe that the PDP should
not only apologize for the imposition of candidates, and the culture of
impunity, but must also come clean and acknowledge that they participated in
large scale corruption and massive diversions of public funds to private
pockets while poverty was ravaging the ordinary Nigerians.
“We challenge individual PDP
leaders to publicly and voluntarily tell Nigerians how much they stole and then
agree to cough up their illegal acquisitions of wealth if they want their
apology to be taken seriously.
“Apology borne by desperation to
recapture power without a desire to admit how much they stole and the reluctance
to return the loot is morally hollow. This goes beyond rebranding. Nigerians
are not interested in brands. They want their money back.
“For such apology to gain
acceptance, the offenders must first of all show remorse; then return that
which was unlawfully taken or restore the damage caused the nation; and commit
to never doing the wrong they did again. The PDP has done none of these for
them to be taken seriously by anyone.
“Instead of addressing this
cogent issue raised by the Minister, the PDP veered off to accuse this
administration of borrowing money but failed, in that regard to admit that they
borrowed to steal while Buhari administration is borrowing to set up
long-delayed infrastructure.
“They accused the President of
unevenness, of inflaming ethnic and religious tensions, when it is on record
that they gave this country its divisive president who chose the hallowed
premises of places of worship to read important national statements.
“President Buhari never fails in
his duty as the Chief Security Officer of the nation. He acts fast whenever and
wherever there are incidents by ordering law-enforcement agencies to do their
job and fact-finding mission to give him actionable reports.
“PDP’s uncaring attitude to these
matters, including the kidnapping of 270 girls from Chibok is the hallmark of
the long years of misrule.
“Another issue of moral and
political significance is about the recent disclosure by US investigators that
the PDP government engaged in massive data theft that included the hacking of
Candidate Muhammadu Buhari’s personal data before the last general elections.
PDP’s continued silence on this reprehensible heist only goes to confirm their
remorselessness even as more and more facts are emerging that the same unfair
method was the modus operandi that they used to capture political power in the
2017 elections,” he stated.
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