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2019: Nigerians to choose between Buhari and a racketeer –APC

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2019: Nigerians to choose between Buhari and a racketeer –APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that Nigerian voters have an option to chose in 2019, between a presidential candidate “who is putting the people first” and on the other hand, “a racketeer who will readily mortgage” the country’s commonwealth to personal coffers and cronies.

The party was responding to a statement by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that President Muhammadu Buhari presidency is jittery of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s emergence as its candidate and has resorted to engaging in a smear campaign against him.

But APC in a statement on Thursday by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, described the allegation as laughable.

“The PDP’s assertion particularly coming from its spokesperson is ironic and laughable, given the fact that Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, as an editor with one of the national newspapers, in fact unearthed the Special Audit/Forensic Investigation of Petroleum Technology Development Fund; which indicted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, then Vice President, for the mismanagement of the Fund.

“The PDP spokesperson in his published report disclosed that from 1999 to 2006, Atiku’s approval for the release of $20 million from the treasury and subsequent placement in Trans International Bank without appropriation and approval by the Federal Executive Council was illegal and amounted to an abuse of office.

“There are no lies here. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar grapples with several other corruption indictments. This is a fact and reality he needs to deal with and come clean about,” the statement read.

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The response came just as Atiku has called on Buhari to tell Nigerians those behind the grass-cutting scandal at the Internally Displaced Peoples’ (IDPs) camp in the northern part of the country and those behind the alleged siphoning of funds from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as well as the Central Bank of Nigeria under the guise of payment of subsidy.

Speaking for his principal, Atiku’s Head of Media Campaign Organisation, Segun Sowumi, said in a monitored report that they would not want to be involved in talking about trivial issues with the President and his team.

According to him, what they want is to talk and debate with them is how to create jobs and how to solve many problems facing the country.

 

 

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