BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday said the revelation that the minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, dodged the compulsory one-year national service has further validates its position that President Muhammadu Buhari administration is run by a fraudulent gang and persons of questionable character.
The party noted that the effrontery with which Adebayo Shittu is trying to justify his crime against the nation speaks volume of the impunity in the Buhari administration.
It also said that President Buhari, in appointing fraudulent persons to hold key offices in his government, has shown that he is not as clean as his handlers had always wanted Nigerians to believe.
The PDP stressed that this is in addition to official cover to corrupt officials in various sectors, including the Petroleum ministry, directly under Mr. President where over N10 trillion is alleged to have been stolen under fictitious contracts and sleazy oil subsidy deals, as well as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), where indicted officials were reinstated by the Presidency.
The PDP insists that President Buhari has the moral burden of explaining what gains he derives from surrounding himself with and appointing fraudulent characters into very sensitive positions, a development that questions his integrity as a leader.
The opposition party said it is very sad that the corruption of the Buhari administration have continued to smear the nation leading to dearth in foreign direct investments and development partnership to our country.
These were contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in which the party challenged President Buhari to provide answers to allegations that such individuals are being used as henchmen to fritter away trillions of naira from the nation’s treasury to service the All Progressives Congress (APC) interests and the Presidency cabal
Ologbondiyan said that Nigerians know how President Buhari refused to sack, let alone prosecute the disgraced erstwhile minister of financed, Kemi Adeosun, despite her culpability in certificate forgery and how the Federal Government smuggled her out of the country to prevent her from opening up on the humongous corruption in the Buhari Presidency.
According to Ologbondiyan; “President Buhari has also not declared why he has refused to sack or prosecute his Special Assistant on Prosecution and Chairman of the Special Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, despite declaration by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) that he parades a fake certificate.”
The PDP therefore charged the police to immediately charge Adebayo Shittu, stressing that President Buhari should note that Nigerians no longer have confidence in him and as such should prepare to accept defeat in the 2019 Presidential election and quit the stage for a sincere, development-oriented President that will be elected on the platform of the PDP.
