Revisit ‘Looters’ List, Name Sponsors Of Buhari’s 2015 Election, PDP Replies FG

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has regretted that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government can waste “a wholesome three years searching for flimsy allegations to discredit” its members.

The PDP was reacting to the just released “looters” list by the Federal Government on Friday.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had in the list named the National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, as one of the country’s treasury looters.

The government had amongst others also accused the opposition party’s former financial secretary of illegally drawing N600 million from the office of the then National Security Adviser.

The PDP however quickly dismissed the list. The party said the government’s allegations as contained in the list goes to confirm that the Presidency has “no prove of corruption against the PDP.”

The opposition party further described the list as APC’s way of providing cover for alleged corrupt persons who allegedly stole government funds to sponsor President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 election.

“The Buhari-led Federal Government has manifested its frenzy by going after matters that are in court and in which none of the persons have been convicted, thus betraying their wickedness and desperation to mislead the public, the court and divert attention from the heavy looting involving their members,” said the PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

“We are not in doubt that the individuals he has mentioned will take their legitimate stride and pursue appropriate action in the court.

“However, attacks on individuals, who are members of our party, does not in anyway detract from the fact that the PDP, as a political platform, is not a party of corruption.

“It is unfortunate that the APC and its government under whose watch horrendous sleazes are happening on daily basis and a government that has failed to fulfill the littlest of its campaign promises, can spend a wholesome three years searching for flimsy allegations to discredit our party and its members.

“This is a government that is yet to account for $26 billion (N9 trillion) stolen through corrupt oil contracts in the NNPC, N1.1 trillion worth of crude diverted to service APC interests, N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) intervention fund stolen by APC officials, including their former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, the N10 billion National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for which members of the Buhari cabal were indicted as well as the Mainagate, where the APC government recalled and reinstated an individual indicted for scam running into billions of naira.

“This is in addition to provide cover for serving ministers indicted for corrupt enrichment, among whom is a prominent former APC governor from the southsouth, who was indicted by his state for stealing billions of naira to fund President Buhari’s campaign in 2015.

“We emphatically say that the PDP is on a rebound and such flimsy allegations by the APC and its horde of looters, who stole humongous wealth from their respective states of the federation to sponsor an incompetent candidate in 2015, cannot stop us from challenging the Federal Government to fulfill its campaign promises.

“Since, the APC has decided to draw this attack, we will no longer hold back but appropriately commence a serialization of all looters hiding in APC and the Presidency.”