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Nigeria can no longer be hoodwinked by APC lies – PDP replies Lai

The Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) has described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration as a authorities of liars, for the liars and by the liars.

The Minister of Data and Tradition, Alhaji Lai Mohammed at a media briefing early on Thursday in Abuja, had mentioned the administration of the APC had put in place constructions that may not solely verify corrupt tendencies however make it unattractive and expensive.

PDP in an announcement by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, vehemently disagreed with the Minister of Data’s declare, stating that the Buhari administration is sinking deeper into the abyss of failure.

The opposition get together acknowledged that “the APC administration is unsettled by the Transparency Worldwide (TI) Report which ranks Nigeria beneath President Buhari because the second most corrupt nation in West Africa and 154 out of 180 in World Corruption Index, given APC’s humongous corruption together with the uncovered looting of over N16 trillion public funds by APC leaders and their cronies in authorities.”

It additionally added that the President Buhari-led administration has no response to the alleged looting of $25 billion beneath its watch as detailed within the Nigeria Nationwide Petroleum Company (NNPC) leaked memo.

PDP additionally challenged the APC authorities to provide solutions to the “reported stealing of N165 billion within the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), the N1.5 trillion and $9.5 million reportedly stolen from Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Company (NIMASA), the $65 million frittered from the Federal Mortgage Financial institution of Nigeria (FMBN) in addition to the N90 billion reportedly looted from the Federal Inland Income Service (FIRS).

“That is along with the reported looting of N33 billion from the Nationwide Emergency Administration Company (NEMA), the reported stealing of over N18 billion from the rehabilitation of IDPs within the North East, the over N25 billion from the Nationwide Well being Insurance coverage Scheme (NHIS) in addition to the looting of N500 billion Social Funding Programme Fund as revealed by the First Woman, Aisha Buhari amongst others,” the assertion acknowledged.

PDP berated the Minister of Data and Tradition over his try to hide the alleged complicity of the APC within the persevering with insecurity within the nation and declare that the APC authorities has uncovered 96 sponsors of terrorism and arrested 45 individuals confirmed to be terrorists.

It queried that, if the ruling APC can not purge itself of a self-confessed terrorism apologist, how can it declare to have successfully confronted terrorism within the nation?

The opposition get together additionally challenged the APC to publish the names and particulars of these it claimed to be sponsors of terrorism and people it claimed to have been arrested. Supply: DailyPost

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