The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) Thursday called on Nigerians to reject and resist the renewed attempt by
the Presidency to loot $1billion from the national coffers to finance President
Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid come 2019.
PDP also urged the National
Assembly to commence appropriate constitutional legislative actions against
President Buhari for gross misconduct in unilaterally approving the release of
the fund without allowing for the application of legislative instrument.
The party’s spokesman, Kola
Ologbondiyan, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja said, “its
investigation revealed that the Presidency wilfully sidestepped the National
Assembly so as to avoid legislative scrutiny and accountability and pave way
for the diversion of the fund for selfish partisan purposes”.
The statement further stated, “It
is a notorious fact that the Presidency and the APC have been plotting to loot
this $I billion from our heavily depleted Excess Crude Account (ECA) since last
year, using the guise of fight against insurgency”.
“This is the same Buhari
administration that has been boasting of having technically defeated the
insurgents. This is also an administration that is not known to have exhausted
subsisting budgetary allocations for defense”.
“Nigerians are thoroughly disappointed
that President Buhari; the same African Union (AU) ‘anti-corruption champion’,
who swore to be above board and to protect the constitution and our laws, will
allow himself to fall for the temptation of resorting to ways and means which
are totally at variance with the laws and all democratic tenets”.
The opposition party affirmed
that democracy thrives on constitutional processes of separation of powers, due
diligence and transparency and not on totalitarian tendencies.
It also maintained that, “the
President, as a leader, reasonably ought to have known that he is in no way
above the law”.
It is on this premise that PDP
urged the National Assembly to look into the constitution and impose
appropriate legislative instruments against Buhari if any part of the 1999
constitution (as amended) has been breached by this unilateral decision.
The party further urged the
National Assembly to scrutinise the constitution and other statute books for
the purposes of strengthening the laws guiding the application of funds in our
country, particularly under this inherently corrupt and incompetent
administration.
It also alleged that the Buhari
administration was using the fight against insurgency as a conduit to siphon
funds, “as evinced in the alleged looting of the N18 billion Internally
Displaced Persons (IDP)’s funds, we demand for an independent investigation
into the processes of release and utilization of all special funds for war
against insurgency in the last three years”.
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Woow. Mr President ,if you still insist and take $1 billion dollars to fight boko Haram, your presidency and political party will meet its end in May 2019. I promise you, the entire party, not only you personally will not be able to survive politically. Are we brain dead in Nigeria? We need 24/7 electricity so that we can start producing our own finished goods from raw materials and export massively, amongst other things like education, health etc. Other nations are looking into the stars and breaking new grounds in research and technology, we in Nigeria are busy fighting either terrorists, politics, Fulani herdsmen or even our kinsmen. May God keep us till 2019, we have all gotten our PVCs, we say no more to brain dead decisions in Nigeria.
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