PDP Welcomes FG’s Probe Into Cambridge Analytica’s ‘Meddling’ In 2015 Election

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said it welcomes Nigerian government’s bid to investigate alleged meddling in the 2015 general elections by data mining firm, Cambridge Analytica.

The PDP however urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government to extend the probe into the sources of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign funds.

The opposition party described the move as APC’s desperate bid to implicate its party in “the alleged hacking into the personal record of its Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.”

Speaking in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP also described the move as the ruling APC’s bid to divert attention from the recent “various scandalous allegations” hanging on President Buhari’s neck.

“The APC is merely seeking to divert public attention from its manifold failures and scandals, as it is already public knowledge that neither the PDP nor any of its officials or members were ever linked or indicted in any way, in the said saga.

“It is also public knowledge that the document being relied upon by the APC clinically stated that, “there is no suggestion that Jonathan knew of the covert operation.”

“We are therefore aware that this new agenda is to divert public attention from the various scandalous allegations hanging on the neck of the Buhari Presidency, including the use of looted funds to finance his 2015 Presidential election, the Martin Luther Kings award saga, the damaging Bill Gates verdict on the Buhari’s economic policies as well as the numerous financial scandals in the NNPC under his watch.

“This inquest should therefore be completely open and independent of government control, so that Nigerians will know the truth, not only on the Cambridge Analytica saga, but also on the source of funds for the President’s 2015 campaign and other sleazes under his watch,” said the party.