Buhari, a product of corruption, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said that in spite d the anti-corruption posturing of the present administration, President Muhammadu Buhari is a product of corruption as the campaigns that brought him to power was allegedly funded by corrupt officials.
The party also said that there was “incontrovertible evidence that grave corrupt practices are ongoing and allowed to fester by associates and cronies of government.”
The opposition party said these associates and cronies include former and present governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and those that allegedly financed Buhari’s campaign “with stolen state funds.”
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said, “The onus lies on the APC-led Federal Government to wage a credible holistic anti-corruption war by first purging itself of unclean association and coming out clear on sleazes already going on in government quarters since it took office in May.
According to him, “Every discerning mind knows that this administration is not executing a credible holistic war against corruption because it is a product of corruption, surrounded by corrupt persons; a factor apparently responsible for its obvious blind eyes to huge sleazes now being perpetrated in government agencies by persons claiming closeness to the President.”
Reacting, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Lai Mohammed, described the PDP allegations as unsubstantiated.
“These are wild and unsubstantiated allegations. They are uncoordinated and a mere rehash of what the PDP has been saying in the last three months. This is rabble-rousing at its worst,” the APC spokesman said.
The Presidency also described the opposition allegations as frivolous and intended to distract the government.
The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said contrary to the PDP allegations, Buhari had not and would not shield any APC government official from facing prosecution for corruption.
Metuh however said it was alarming that the Buhari government that got to power based on the President’s anti-corruption credentials had broken the records in constitutional violations and abuse of regulations.

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He called on Nigerians to note that the APC-led administration had not been forthcoming on spending of funds it inherited in the Excess Crude Account and other government savings.
Metuh said, “Are they the source of the funds now being circulated to pay back huge contributions for APC Presidential campaign expenses?
“Furthermore, we wish to draw the attention of all Nigerians to the fact that this administration, for obvious reasons, has deliberately turned a blind eye to the corrupt acts of most APC leaders, who as governors, ministers and labour leaders have been the worst corrupt set of people ever to bestride the political landscape of the country.
“Otherwise, how else can one explain the deafening silence by the government to the public outrage over the massive looting of public funds by some past APC governors?”
Garba however said Buhari never told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission not to touch any APC governor because they belonged to the party.
He said it was convenient for the PDP to remember the cases of former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, but it pretended not to notice the fact that former Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, who is an APC member, was also arrested and arraigned at the same time.

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