The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the alleged money said to have been siphoned from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) which runs into billions of naira as hogwash.
The APC was responding to some media reports and a statement from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) alleging that N90 billion or N40 billion was released to the APC by the Federal FIRS for the Party’s 2019 election political campaigns.
A statement signed by Lanre Issa-Onilu, National Publicity Secretary, APC called the report
baseless and the allegations by the PDP “an unintelligent and crude attempt at a smear campaign,” saying, “only the sponsors of the report believe their tales.”
“We call on the sponsors of the baseless allegation to resolve their confusion. Last time it was N90 billion, now it is N40billion. We also challenge them to provide evidence from not only FIRS but any other government agency where the APC took one kobo for campaign.
“The matter of dipping hands into public coffers as a matter of official policy ended with PDP. We recall that leaders of the PDP had contemplated changing the name of their party at a time because they were ashamed of their own record of sleaze.
“We however refer the PDP and co-peddlers of falsehood to the records of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in terms of Cost of Collection accruing to FIRS and indeed the FIRS statement on the subject matter,” the statement added.