President Muhammadu Buhari. |
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a text of the Press Conference By The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), today
Monday, August 6, 2018, at the PDP National Secretariat, Abuja.
Gentlemen
of the press, we have called you up today to, through you raise serious posers
for which we demand immediate response from President Muhammadu Buhari and his
All Progressives Congress (APC), whose administration has scammed Nigerians and
the international community in the last three years.
President
Buhari and his APC deceived Nigerians to secure power on the promise of
transparency, accountability and zero tolerance for corruption. Little did
Nigerians then realize that they had boarded a “one chance bus” driven by
vicious and vengeful liars, scammers and a falsehearted and heavily corrupt
leaders, parading as saints and messiahs.
The
Buhari Presidency and the APC-led Federal Government have been doing all to
divert public attention from their ocean of corruption and primitive stealing
including launching a brutal attack on the opposition, hounding innocent
Nigerians for no just cause and seizing the airwaves to brand everybody else as
corrupt, while underneath they shamelessly pillage our nation’s resources,
stealing money in trillion, under President Buhari’s official cover.
Today,
the Buhari Presidency has been busted. Today, the very leader, who hitherto
paraded as pro-poor and saintly has now been exposed to be at the head of the
most corrupt administration that our nation ever had since independence.
If
President Buhari and his Presidency are not corrupt; if the APC is not a party
of corruption, the PDP challenges them to address Nigerians on their complicit
in the exposed acts of humongous corruption thriving in the high places under
their watch.
*The
PDP challenges President Buhari to explain why his anti-corruption fight has
not been extended to investigate the corruption from the leaked memo detailing
alleged underhand oil contracts to the tune of N9 trillion ($25billion dollars)
at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Ministry of
Petroleum Resources, which are under the direct supervision President Buhari as
Minister of Petroleum Resources. Why has investigation into this scam been
suppressed?
*The
PDP challenges President Buhari to explain to Nigerians whose interest he is
protecting by refusing to allow an independent inquest into the alleged
corruption in the handling of the N1.4 trillion oil subsidy regime allegedly involving
officials at the Presidency, particularly those benefiting from alleged N58
hidden tax per liter which Nigerians have continued to bear since the fuel
price increased from PDP subsidized cost of N87 to presumably unsubsidized cost
of N145.
*The
PDP challenges President Buhari and the APC to explain whose interests they are
protecting by suppressing investigation into the alleged use of 18 unregistered
companies to lift and divert N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil in 2017. Who are
the owners of these companies? Are the companies linked to President Buhari or
any of his relatives or even APC leaders?
*Furthermore,
the PDP challenges the Buhari Presidency and the APC to explain to the world
why his anti-corruption fight has not been extended to the internationally
reported diversion and alleged stealing of N18 billion out of the N48 billion
approved by the National Assembly for the rehabilitation of millions of
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and rebuilding of six northeast states
ravaged by insurgency in the 2017 budget.
Can
the Buhari Presidency and APC claim to be unaware of the damning report by the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a public document which detailed
how officials were using bulk of the resources meant for the IDPs on contracts
that were found to have immensely benefitted officials of the APC Government
including the sacked Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir
Lawal?
Can
the Presidency and the APC claim to be unaware of the motion by Senator Baba
Kaka Garba from Borno Central, who exposed how persons, known to have
connections with the APC, fraudulently cornered N1.2 billion from the Federal
Government under the guise of supplying items to IDPs?
*The
PDP challenges the Presidency to explain why his ‘famed’ anti-corruption
dragnet has not been cast on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) despite
widely reports of alleged stealing of over N25 billion meant for the health
need of the people from the account of the Scheme in the Treasury Single
Account (TSA) by APC agents.
Can
President Buhari, the African Union anti-corruption champion, explain why his
Presidency recalled and reinstated the indicted Executive Secretary of the
Scheme, Prof. Usman Yakubu, while he was still being quizzed by the EFCC for
alleged corruption?
*The
PDP and Nigerians would also want President Buhari to explain why his
anti-corruption crusade has not been directed to the discovery of unremitted
revenue from sale of crude by the NNPC under his watch as well as the
undisclosure of revenue accruable to states for which there have been deadlock
at the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC). Why are these areas immune
from the anti-corruption fight or are the interests at the highest places
involved in the messy deals.
*Moreover,
it is a settled saying that birds of the same feathers flock together. The fact
that President Buhari comfortably surrounds himself with persons indicted for
corruption, sundry frauds, common scams as well as forgeries is very revealing
on the phoniness of his administration’s fight against corruption.
*President
Buhari has no other explanation for engaging and rewarding corrupt individuals
as ministers, including a certain individual whose state’s judicial panel of
inquiry had in 2015 issued a government white paper indicting him of looting
over N90 billion through alleged illegal sale of the assets belonging to the
state. After all, the said white paper further alleged that N40 billion out of
the looted N90 billion was diverted for APC’s 2015 Presidential campaigns.
*It
is no longer news that one Obono-Obla, President Buhari’s Special Assistant on
Prosecution and Chairman, Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of
Public Property in Buhari’s anti-corruption team has been indicted for forging
his WAEC certificate, yet his boss, Mr. Integrity has refused to investigate
him.
*The
same goes for Buhari’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who has been accused
of dodging her compulsory national service and allegedly forged the NYSC
Exemption Certificate. Despite her inability to deny the allegation, she is
still the minister of finance under Mr. Clean.
Currently,
the Buhari Presidency in its corrupt proclivity is seeking to force the
reopening of the Senate contrary to Section 12 of the Senate Standing Rules for
which the Presidency and the APC are offering lawmakers from both chambers an
inducement of the sum of $1 million each with the aim of impeaching Senate
President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.
The
PDP has been informed that one of the heads of the security agencies is the
arrow head of the Buhari Presidency’s agents charged to coordinate this heinous
design, which has the unlimited capacity to throw our nation into anarchy and
ultimately destroy our hard-earned democracy.
The
question today is, where is President Buhari’s fight against corruption?
The
APC and Buhari Presidency has turned Nigeria into their cash cow while
manipulating our laws and rules to favour their selfish designs.
However,
the PDP restates a commitment to the Nigerian people to expose the Buhari
administration and fight for the unity, stability, indivisibly and prosperity
of our dear nation.
Nigeria
belongs to all of us and nobody, no matter how highly placed has the right to
continue to subvert our laws, beguile, intimidate or even attempt to subjugate
our citizens at any time.
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