PDP Reacts To Transparency Corruption Report
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have said the latest report by Transparency International (TI) on the nation’s level of corruption, has vindicated their stance their President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is “overtly corrupt.”
In the latest corruption index by the TI had shown the country as being worse off in corruption.
And in a statement on Thursday by the opposition PDP, they described the naming of Buhari as the anti-corruption champion by the African Union as an error, calling for its immediate withdrawal.
“When the PDP first alerted (Nigerians) that the APC and its incompetent federal government were swimming in an ocean of concealed corruption, many did not know to what extent,” the PDP stated.
“It is shocking that under our ‘saints’, Nigeria has moved significantly from the 136th it ranked in 2016 to 146th in 2017, with President Buhari presiding.
“This is a government that has been providing cover for its corrupt officials while operating heavily on propaganda, persecution of opposition members with fabricated charges to sway the people with false performance indices.”
The party added that, “This is a government that offered protection to former APC governors who were accused of stealing money meant for the development of their States to fund the 2015 APC Presidential campaign, and even rewarded them with ministerial appointments.
“We challenge the APC and the Presidency to speak out on this TI report. What have they to say when the world is now aware that they are complicit in humongous sleazes including the leaked official memo showing 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 purview of President Buhari as Petroleum minister?”
