PDP Counsels Oshiomhole: ‘Face Your Corruption Charges With EFCC, DSS’

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to mind his alleged corruption charges before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Department of State Services (DSS).

The PDP said instead of “embarking on shadow-boxing” against its party, Oshiomhole should save his energy for the alleged charges of corruption levelled against him as former Edo state governor and as chairman of the ruling APC.

The PDP stated this after Oshiomhole slammed the opposition party over its plans to investigate its members who voted for candidates of the ruling APC during the recently held National Assembly elections.

The APC Chairman had said, “I was particularly excited when the clerk in breach of a court order insisted on conducting secret ballot and our party members in the two chambers proved their complete loyalty.”

He added, “The way the manner they did, such that the PDP that was calling for secret ballot, because they didn’t want people to know how people voted, are now conducting an inquiry into who voted for who among them. This is a complete violation of the essence of secret ballot.”

But reacting in a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP asked Oshiomhole to face his “pending corruption allegations and imminent sack for alleged misconduct.”

The opposition party said, “Oshiomhole, who is battling his ouster calls by APC leaders over allegations of corruption and malfeasance in his handling of their party, is in no position to cast aspersions or pontificate to the PDP on our lawful internal activities and relationship with our elected public officials.

“Instead of trying to launder his image by unnecessarily attacking the PDP, we advice Oshiomhole to redeem his name by submitting himself to the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to answer huge allegations of corruption as Edo state governor as well as alleged misconducts as APC Chairman.

The opposition party challenged Oshiomhole to “speak out on the allegations that he fled the country at the wake of his reported interrogation by the DSS in 2018 over accusations of corruption.

“This is a leader who had accepted that his party and the government it formed are sanctuaries of corrupt persons, when he stated, at the APC campaign rally in Edo state last year, that  “once you join the APC, your sins are forgiven”.

“Moreover, instead of this fixation on the PDP, Oshiomhole already has his plate full with the crisis in his home state, Edo, where he is generally believed to be responsible for political tension by trying to force himself on the state governor, Governor Godwin Obaseki, as godfather.

“Oshiomhole needs to concentrate on the crisis rocking his party as well as the Presidency where the members of the cabal are at daggers drawn over the sharing of positions as “booty” of a rigged election,” said the PDP.