Press Statement
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the revelation by the First
Lady, Aisha Buhari, that there is humongous fraud in the N500bn Social
Investment Programme and the N16bn Mosquito Net Project of the Buhari
administration, has further vindicated its stance that the
administration is deceitful and a pretentious citadel of corruption.
The party says Aisha Buhari’s revelation has further shown that the PDP
has not been crying wolf by insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari
must account for the trillions of naira stolen under his watch in the
last four years.
More disheartening is the fact that the said funds were meant for the
welfare of the poor, whom Mr President had always claimed to represent
in government.
Unfortunately, these poor Nigerians have been waiting endlessly for the
failed social investments promised by President Buhari only to have
their hopes dashed as revelations by Mrs Buhari had shown that the money
provided for the programme had been stolen.
The PDP holds that now that the truth has been revealed by no lesser
Nigerian than Mr President’s wife, the National Assembly and all anti
corruption agencies should immediately commence forensic investigation
how these funds were dispensed and utilized.
Nigerians can now see how the same administration president over by ‘Mr.
Integrity’ has been using the names of innocent poor Nigerians to loot
our national treasury and fritter away billions of naira to finance
their wasteful lifestyle while Nigerians wallow in abject poverty.
It is indeed appalling that the Buhari administration would be sitting
on such colossal corruption and continues to thrive in evil concealment
while diverting public attention from their rot by hounding innocent
opposition figures on trump-up corruption charges.
The PDP had always maintained that no matter how much deceit and
falsehood appear to thrive, the truth must prevail at the end of the
day.
Our party therefore charges President Buhari to speak out on the matter
and immediately commence the process of recovering the money and
channeling it for the benefit of the poor Nigerians.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
