The Peoples Democratic Party has asked the President, Muhammadu Buhari to offer explanation to allegations in the
media space that certain officials and individuals close to the Presidency
defrauded Nigeria of the sum of N51 billion out of which N2.5 billion was wired
to a family member of his.
The PDP said the recent reports of massive treasury looting
“has further exposed his administration as a putrid citadel of corruption.”
The party asked the Buhari regime to “speak out on allegations,
also in the public space, that 122 posh properties, valued at over N16 trillion
and seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), were shared
and allocated to cronies on the directives of the Presidency.”
The PDP said this in a statement signed by its National
Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
The statement read in part, “The Buhari Presidency should
not pretend not to be aware that the media is awash with reports that a known
confidant of Mr. President and certain officials of the Nigerian Customs
defrauded our nation to the tune of N51 billion under a hazy “Revenue Assurance
Fund”, out of which N2.5 billion was reported to have been transferred to a
foundation allegedly owned by a female member of the President’s immediate
family.
“This close confidant, who is alleged to be fronting for
certain individuals close to the President in scandalous contracts running into
billions of naira in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) among other government agencies, was
arrested at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom in 2019, for alleged
passport scam and laundering of 200,000 pounds allegedly belonging to a
particularly relation of Mr. President.
“On the EFCC scandal, the Buhari Presidency should come
clean on how the anti-graft agency was hijacked to become an instrument of
treasury looting and corrupt enrichment for fraudulent friends and officials of
the Buhari administration
“It is indeed appalling that such impunity and barefaced
looting are going on under an administration that came into governance with an
assurance of fighting corruption, only to end up swimming in an ocean of
corruption
“The PDP asks the Buhari Presidency to end its silence as
the issues are already in the public domain, with Nigerians demanding
forinvestigations.
“The PDP therefore demands that the Buhari Presidency should
order an immediate and open investigation into the allegations into these
duplicitous enterprises for which persons connected to the Presidency have
again beenmentioned.”
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