The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Sunday said the All Progressives Congress (APC) unwarranted invective
on former President Goodluck Jonathan was misdirected as it best suits
President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, which has “gone down as the most
incompetent and most corrupt in the history of our nation.”
The party said the distortions
and groundless attack on President Jonathan is a desperate tactic by the APC and
the Buhari Presidency to divert public attention from the recent shocking
corruption and fraud revelations in which close relatives and confidants of Mr.
President are
mentioned.
In a statement by its
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition party claimed that it has been
made aware of “how the Presidency has been in a frenzy to suppress
investigations and deflect public enquiries from the arrest of President
Buhari’s known confidant deported from the United Kingdom for alleged
international passport scam and money laundering, as it knows that an inquest will
further expose the huge rot in the Buhari Presidency.”
“Our party has equally been made
aware of how the APC and the Buhari Presidency have been desperate to divert
public attention from the administration’s obnoxious decision to further
oppress Nigerians by reintroducing tollgates on our highway, increasing Value
Added Tax (VAT), electricity bill and other
tariffs as well as their despicable plot to sack government workers.”
The PDP also charged the APC and
the Buhari Presidency to “perish the idea of thinking that this unnecessary
distortions on the Jonathan administration would bury the demand for an inquest
into the Danu racket through which billions of naira meant for the wellbeing of
Nigerians are allegedly being diverted to
private purses.”
The opposition party also
stressed that Nigerians should note how the APC had remained silent since revelations that its key leaders
and the cabal at the Presidency are involved in the stealing of over N14
trillion meant for the wellbeing of Nigerians.
“Our party further challenges the
APC and the Buhari Presidency to speak out on the alleged diversion of the
N500bn meant for the Social Investment Programme among other humongous fraud
directly perpetrated under the Buhari Presidency.
“Furthermore, in trying to tar
the PDP, the APC forgets that it is already common knowledge that all the bad
eggs that brought a bad name to the PDP have since left our repositioned party
to the APC where their National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, who also has a huge
corruption allegation on his neck, admitted
that the party is a haven for corrupt persons.
“Moreover, the fact that
President Buhari can only surround himself with persons openly indicted for
corruption, as ministers and advisers, speaks volume of the administration’s
posturing on corruption,” the statement added.
The PDP therefore charged the APC
not to think that it can cover its mess by trying to make “unfounded
allegations against President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP as Nigerians can
now see through their shenanigans.”
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