The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has insisted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, 2015 Presidential
campaign was funded with stolen funds from Lagos and Rivers states.
The party consequently challenged
the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, party and the Minister of
Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to deny that the APC’s 2015 presidential
campaigns were not funded with stolen money from Lagos and Rivers states.
In a statement by its National
Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition party also described as
a diversionary tactic employed by the APC and Mohammed to deceive Nigerians
with the statement that PDP is rebranding with stolen funds.
Ologbondiyan said APC should
rather address issues PDP raised on why the planned withdrawal of $1bn from the
Excess Crude Account, ECA, to fight Boko Haram insurgency is a ruse.
Insisting that the Federal
Government must address the issues it raised, PDP noted that, “the attempt by
the APC Federal Government to divert attention from the fraud, by resorting to
unsubstantiated allegations against the PDP only reinforces its manipulative
tendencies and arrogant spurn to the sensibilities of Nigerians.”
The statement reads, “Such wild
allegation was only intended to divert public attention from the heavy sleazes
under the current administration, the latest being the moves to use the fight
against terrorism as a conduit to siphon public funds for partisan purposes”.
“The Federal Government has
failed to address issues raised by the PDP and majority of Nigerians, including
APC members, who cannot fathom how this administration would want to expend
N365bn on fighting insurgents it claimed had been technically defeated.
“It is indeed appalling that
rather than being remorseful, the APC Federal Government has renewed its wild
allegations and cheap blackmail against the PDP.
“It is a clear to all that the
PDP do not have access to public funds and cannot be rebranding with stolen
money. Instead, we are rebranding on the grace of the general goodwill of
Nigerians who have suffered untold hardships in close to three years of APC
government.
“While we understand the
nervousness of the APC Federal Government over our rebranding and the renewed
popularity of the PDP, which has signaled their inevitable death knell,
resorting to outlandish allegations will not help them as Nigerians have since seen
through such old-fashioned propaganda and gimmicks.
“We are however not surprised by
this diversionary and deceptive approach from the APC government; a government
whose officials have since become notorious for dishing out falsehood to
Nigerians to cover their incompetence and corrupt tendencies.
“This is the same minister of
information, who in a press conference in Abuja, in 2016, promoted allegations
that 55 people stole a total of N1.34 trillion; that 5 former governors stole
N146.8 billion; that 4 former ministers stole N7 billion. All these have
remained unsubstantiated.
“While we challenge this
Government to come clean on the issue of the $1bn Excess Crude money, we also
challenge the minister of information to comment on allegations that the APC
funded its 2015 presidential campaign with stolen public funds, particularly
from Lagos and Rivers states.
“He should also waste no time in
commenting on allegations of corruption against their former SGF, Babachir
Lawal, the Mainagate and other heavy sleazes going on unabated under the
current APC-led administration.”
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