The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, on Monday challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to speak out on the
allegation of “illegal award of oil contracts worth $25 billion under his
watch”.
PDP lamented that the alleged
complicity of the “Buhari Presidency coupled with Mr. President’s failure to
address the reported fraudulent contracts awarded through the Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has earned the nation a huge embarrassment of
being labeled a ‘kleptocracy’ in the international arena.”
In a statement by its
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said, “Nigerians wonder how President
Buhari and his handlers felt when they read the new book by a former United
States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, and former US Intelligence
Community Expert on Nigeria, Matthew Page, where our dear nation was described
as ‘a kleptocracy’, because of the humongous corruption, festering unchecked,
in the Buhari administration.
“The new book has further
vindicated the stance of the PDP that corruption has skyrocketed under
President Buhari, as also emphasized in reports by other international bodies,
including the United States Department of State, the Amnesty International (AI)
and Transparency International (TI), which recently declared that corruption
has escalated in Nigeria under President Buhari, despite his nebulous
anti-corruption claims.
“The book also aligns with our
party’s position that President Buhari’s incompetence, utterances and failure
to live up to expectation as the father and chief security officer of the
nation are directly responsible for the escalated acrimony, bloodletting and
killings in various parts of our country in the last three years.
“Indeed, as captured by the book,
the impunity and constitutional violations by Buhari administration has done a
lot of harm against our nation, while his failure to address the endemic
corruption in his administration, particularly in the Petroleum sector, where
he presides as the Minister of Petroleum Resources, is hurting the image of our
nation.
“President Buhari has failed to
address the alleged stealing of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil as well as the
sleazy oil subsidy deals by interests close to his administration.
“President Buhari has failed to
address the alleged diversion of N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)
fund. He has also refused to address the alleged stealing of N10 billion
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) from the Treasury Single Account (TSA)
by APC officials and Presidency cabal, among other sharp practices in his
government.”
The PDP then called on Nigerians
and the international community to impress it on President Buhari to “save our
nation from further embarrassment by ending the official concealment of
corruption in his presidency and open his administration for an independent
inquest on corruption”.
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