The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the claim by
President Muhammadu Buhari that PDP squandered the sum of $500bn oil proceeds
within 16 years as baseless, unfounded, and unsubstantiated.
The party urged the President not to allow his aides railroad
him into peddling such groundless allegations and bandying of unverified
figures, as doing that could detract from his personality.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a
statement on Tuesday, said the figures alluded to by the President does not
even tally or reflect the actual oil related profile of the nation during the
said period and urged the President not to allow his handlers set him up for
public ridicule.
The entire country is aware that the Presidency is on a feverish
mode over their bound-to-fail 2019 re-election bid for which they have resorted
to making spurious claims against the PDP even when it is clear to Nigerians
that the PDP has since rebranded while preponderance of those who mismanaged
the nation’s resources have now found a safe haven in the Buhari-led All
Progressives Congress (APC).
The party however challenged President Buhari to name one
corrupt person in the repositioned and rebranded PDP and it will hand him a
list of an army of corrupt persons who are hiding in his APC including those
who funded his 2015 presidential campaigns with stolen money in addition to his
many cronies who are now frittering away billion of naira under his watch.
We know that President Buhari did not source his figures,
otherwise we would have directly taken him to task on the veracity of his
claims and detestable image of his party
We however ask; is the President and
his handlers not aware of the humongous corruption going on under the Buhari
Presidency? What have they to say to the recent Transparency International (TI)
report which shows that corruption has worsened under the Buhari
administration? What have they to say about the official memo detailing shady
oil deals to the tune of N9 trillion ($25 billion) at the NNPC which is
directly under the purview of the President as minister of Petroleum resources?
The
Presidency is yet to address its complicity in the heavy sleazes in the
National Health Insurance Scheme where billions of naira have allegedly been
siphoned by their agents, in spite of the Treasury Single Account (TSA); the
alleged diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil and the frittering of
billions of naira meant for rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons in
the northeast, all to service APC interests?
Nigerians
are alarmed by the President’s claim that his administration inherited a
collapsing economy when it is common knowledge that he was actually handed a
thriving economy, ranked the third largest in Africa and one of the fastest
growing in the world.
Has
Mr President forgotten that when he assumed office in 2015, the value of our
naira was N185 to 1USD? Nigerians are aware that the naira went as low as N510
to 1USD and in case Mr President is not aware, Nigerians are also ridiculing
his much touted strengthening of the naira.
We
therefore urge President Buhari and his dysfunctional APC to come to terms with
the fact that Nigerians now know the truth and can no longer be swayed by
propaganda and false claims with which the APC hoodwinked the nation in 2015.
Signed:
Kola
Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
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