PDP alleges APC Governors took money from states purses to finance National Convention

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to commence investigation into reports that the 24 governors elected on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC, diverted N150 million each, amounting to N3.6 billion, from their state coffers, to fund the party’s national convention.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan remarked the Governor of elected under the ruling party disregarded the hardship of the masses while using state funds to finance the party national convention in Abuja.

Ologbondiyan said, “It is unimaginable that while Nigerians are suffering untold economic hardship, including unpaid salaries, due to the misrule of the APC, governors elected on the platform of the APC diverted N150 million each, amounting to a humongous N3.6 billion to fund their wasteful national convention in Abuja.

Recently, the Brooking Report shows that under President Buhari and APC governors, millions of Nigerians are daily dropping below poverty line. According to the report, Nigeria under Buhari has become poverty capital of the world. There is hunger and starvation everywhere, yet the APC stole N3.6 billion from public coffers to fund its national convention.”

The opposition party image maker also said President Buhari can no longer claim to be a man of integrity, as he has been found complicit on acts of corruption in his party and government.

“Each time President Buhari postures as a man of integrity, informed Nigerians shudder. If he is a man of integrity, why is he condoning corruption in his presidency and surrounding himself with corrupt people? Why is he blocking the investigation of Oshiomhole over corruption allegations? Why did he allow looted funds to be used for his party’s national convention? Buhari is not a man of integrity as his handlers want Nigerians to believe”, he said.