*It’s amazon PDP gets what it asks for, yet angry – Concerned Citizens
“If they don’t know how some of us funded the Buhari’s campaign silently, are they saying they did not hear of how an old woman travelled all the way from Kebbi to hand her life saving of N1 million to Buhari to executive his presidential campaign? Are they saying they did not see how school children insisted that their parents gather their pocket money, no matter how small, and take it to General Buhari for his presidential campaign expenses? That these are not admitted by PDP as big blow to their face and show of total rejection by Nigerians of their unprecedented government of corruption and exceptional impunity and insecurity makes all in that now former ruling party to be men and women of shamelessness who must be treated like criminals for making Nigerians to take responsibility for their loots and inflicted insecurity against them,” the Nigerians said.
The boldness of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to demand that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) immediately proscribe the All Progressives Congress (APC) following releases by its government of lists of looters under its watch has angered many Nigerians who say they can no longer stomach the PDP’s “disdain for our nationhood and humanity”.
They expressed wonder that the same PDP, which challenged the government to name the looters under its watch, is the one finding it difficult to admit that it and its members actually goofed, especially with yet to be disproved claim by the Federal Government that the names on the lists were based on verifiable facts.
PDP leadership for long, banking on resolve of President Muhammadu Buhari not to shame anybody in the former ruling party by making public anybody’s name as looter, despite court order to release the looters’ names, had boasted relentlessly that they did not steal any money from government coffers.
They appeared to be very confident that knowing Buhari for who he is, he would never allow their names to be made public and so they capitalized on that leniency to turn the table of corruption offences in the country against the current governing party and its government.
They have done so to the extent, we learned, that even President Buhari himself has been tagged by the PDP as corrupt leader sitting on government founded on lies and propaganda, adding that he stole $26 billion NNPC oil contract they are said to lack evidence for to fight his 2019 re-election.
As if that was not enough, a source spoke tough, “They still came, after they have now joined forces with Olusegun Obasanjo in a coalition that has attempted to set Nigeria on fire and invite military coup and incite Nigerians in arms conflicts against one another, to challenge the government to name the looters under their watch if the APC government is saying the truth. Now, APC has proved to them that it is up to the challenge posed by PDP and it has been releasing the lists of those who wickedly looted Nigerian treasury under their watch, why should that lead to anger on PDP’s part? And it is very disgusting that people like Femi Fani-Kayode, Olisa Metuh, and even the irrelevant but struggling to be relevant Reno Omokri, among them, are now making jest of the anti-corruption process by releasing their own fake lists and denying their involvement in any loot. They should rather blame their shameless looting spirit for what Federal Government has done by releasing their names than blaming the APC and the Buhari government. They called for it and they will never get out of it. This 2018 will be very hot for them and must be very confusing to them that they will not have the concentration and peace of the minds to remember about 2019. Looters must never be allowed to partake in our national politics if we are really serious as a people,” a group of Concerned Citizens spoken for by Adedoyin Fusika told The DEFENDER.
The PDP had asked INEC to proscribe APC following what it called the “undisputed revelations that it financed Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign with looted funds.”
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday, also gave the Buhari-led presidency a three-day ultimatum to respond to allegations that it was elected with looted funds or find itself top of the list of confirmed looters.
The party said instead of the Presidency and the APC to come out with a response on how President Buhari’s 2015 campaign was funded with looted sums, “they are busy hallucinating about names of individuals,” whose matters are before the courts of competent jurisdiction.
The statement read: “Now that the APC, the federal government, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the Buhari Presidency have chosen a loud silence rather than accepting that looted funds were used to install Buhari as President in 2015, we charge INEC to do the needful by commencing the process for the proscription of the APC as a political party.
“It is evidently clear that the APC, federal government and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, are running away from the issue of how they raised money to install Buhari as President.
“They have pressed the panic button and resorted to unfounded allegations against PDP members just to divert the attention of Nigerians and the international community from their atrocious government and its manifold failures of leadership.
“The PDP will not join the panicky APC and the federal government in their resort to engage in matters that are subjudice because we believe and respect the Rule of Law, particularly, as it concerns the rights of every citizens.
“We know those in the APC and Buhari’s cabinet, who as champions of looting, plundered the resources of their various states and handed same over for the very expensive electioneering campaign of President Buhari, who had earlier confessed of his insolvency. “We have challenged the APC and the Presidency to declare the sources of these funds and how they were used since they have been proven to come from public coffers.”
But, responding, the group asked if PDP leaders and members really have the spirit of humanity in them for trying to drag the government into long argument that will end nowhere over their allegations they cannot prove against Buhari’s election campaign money that was clear how it was raised.
Findings have shown that PDP have consistently failed to prove how APC, a well known deprived and severally persecuted opposition in the buildup to the 2015 general elections, looted the treasury of the nation to fund the presidential campaign of then General Muhammadu Buhari. Neither Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu nor John Odigie-Oyegun was member of their party or government at that time of claim.
The Concerned Citizens asked, “For how many times will PDP people continue to ask the same question over and again after we have provided answer they has always shocked them. If they don’t know how some of us funded the Buhari’s campaign silently, are they saying they did not hear of how an old woman travelled all the way from Kebbi to hand her live saving of N1 million to Buhari to executive his presidential campaign? Are they saying they did not see how school children insisted that their parents gather their pocket money, no matter how small, and take it to General Buhari for his presidential campaign expenses? That these are not admitted by PDP as big blow to their face and show of total rejection by Nigerians of their unprecedented government of corruption and exceptional impunity and insecurity makes all in that now former ruling party to be men and women of shamelessness who must be treated like criminals for making Nigerians to take responsibility for their loots and inflicted insecurity against them,” the Nigerians said.
