The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a gathering of treasury looters and decadent lot following the missing N40 billion allegedly siphoned from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP national spokesman, the party asked the APC to “come clean on revelations, in the public space, that the N40 billion taxpayers’ money allegedly siphoned from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) was used to finance its 2019 campaigns.”
The PDP said the APC is made up of a gathering of treasury looters who thrive in cheating, deceit and pretences at very high levels.
The statement said, “it is shameful that instead of being remorseful, agents of the APC are reportedly engaging in dirty infighting over how the money was ‘shared,’ with certain top leaders of the APC allegedly getting up to N3 billion each.
The statement read:
“The PDP holds that in a nation battling the scourge of corruption, misrule, huge unemployment, unprecedented infrastructural decay, insecurity, hunger and untold hardship, such a humongous allegation must not be allowed to go under the usual APC carpet.
“Our party submits that since the APC has been overtly indicted, it should come clean by refunding the N40 billion to the public coffers from where it should be channeled to job creation projects without further delay.
“The PDP invites Nigerians to note how the APC and its Federal Government have failed to account for various pillaging of public funds under the Buhari administration, including the N14 trillion stolen through various phony contracts in the NNPC as well as direct drawings from other government agencies such as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
“The PDP notes that if the trillions of naira stolen and stashed away in private purses of APC leaders are recovered and directed to development projects, our nation will not be in its present sorry state under the Buhari administration.”