Extend Cambridge Analytica probe to looted funds for Buhari’s 2015 campaign, PDP tells Nigerian govt

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government to probe sources of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign funds.

The PDP was reacting to reports that the government was making efforts to investigate an alleged hack into the personal record of Buhari by a supposed PDP supporter during the process leading to the 2015 elections.

According to the opposition party, the ruling APC Federal Government is merely “chasing shadows in their desperate plot to implicate the opposition in the alleged hack into the personal records of Buhari.”

Saying that “it welcomes an open investigation into the Cambridge Analytica saga,” the PDP however demanded that “such inquest be extended to cover the sources of the looted funds used to prosecute President Buhari’s campaign in 2015.”

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated this in a statement on Sunday, adding that the APC is merely seeking to divert public attention from its manifold failures and scandals, “as it is already public knowledge that neither the PDP nor any of its officials or members were ever linked or indicted in any way, in the said saga.

“It is also public knowledge that the document being relied upon by the APC clinically stated that, “there is no suggestion that Jonathan knew of the covert operation.

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“We are therefore aware that this new agenda is to divert public attention from the various scandalous allegations hanging on the neck of the Buhari Presidency, including the use of looted funds to finance his 2015 Presidential election, the Martin Luther Kings award saga, the damaging Bill Gates verdict on the Buhari’s economic policies as well as the numerous financial scandals in the NNPC under his watch.

“This inquest should therefore be completely open and independent of government control, so that Nigerians will know the truth, not only on the Cambridge Analytica saga, but also on the source of funds for the President’s 2015 campaign and other sleazes under his watch.”

 

 

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