The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to
recognise Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of
the PDP, said this while receiving party leaders from Kogi state at the
headquarters of the opposition party in Abuja on Wednesday.
He also asked the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to commence investigation on Oshiomhole.
“The PDP restates the demand that
the EFCC immediately commence investigation against Oshiomhole, otherwise, it
would have no ground upon which to continue to arrest, investigate and arraign
other Nigerians on allegations of corruption”, he said.
He alleged that APC government
used their states money to fund the APC convention.
“It is unimaginable that while
Nigerians are suffering untold economic hardship, including unpaid salaries,
due to the misrule of the APC, governors elected on the platform of the APC
diverted N150 million each, amounting to a humongous N3.6 billion to fund their
wasteful national convention in Abuja,” Ologbondiyan said.
“Recently, the Brooking Report
shows that under President Buhari and APC governors, millions of Nigerians are
daily dropping below poverty line. According to the report, Nigeria under Buhari
has become poverty capital of the world. There is hunger and starvation
everywhere, yet the APC stole N3.6 billion from public coffers to fund its
national convention.
“Everybody knows that APC is a
party of corruption, that is why their choice of a national chairman is an
individual overburdened by allegations of humongous corruption and alleged
stealing of public funds, yet enjoying presidential cover, even when the
petitions against him at the EFCC is in the public domain.”
The PDP spokesman also questioned
President Muhammadu Buhari over the funds spent on the APC convention.
“Each time President Buhari
postures as a man of integrity, informed Nigerians shudder,” he said.
“If he is a man of integrity, why
is he condoning corruption in his presidency and surrounding himself with
corrupt people? Why is he blocking the investigation of Oshiomhole over
corruption allegations? Why did he allow looted funds to be used for his
party’s national convention? Buhari is not a man of integrity as his handlers want
Nigerians to believe.”
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