According to VANGUARD:- The Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday
engaged in war of words over President Muhammadu Buhari’s
anti-corruption crusade following the grilling of former Akwa Ibom State
Governor and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The opposition party while describing the anti-graft war as selective
and a sham, said President Buhari is a dictator and urged him, if he is
sincere, to go after former All Progressives Congress, APC governors,
who had petitions against them for alleged corruption.
In a quick counter, the presidency declared that the PDP is a party that needs pity because it has run out of ideas.
Go after former APC Govs, PDP tells Buhari
Taking a swipe at the APC-led government’s alleged persecution of
Akpabio, the national leadership of the PDP said that the move is
politically designed to weaken the PDP ahead of 2019 presidential
election.
According to PDP, rather than allow the EFCC to go after former APC
former governors who have been petitioned, they were being compensated
with ministerial positions.
Addressing Journalists yesterday, PDP National Publicity Secretary,
Chief Olisa Metuh said President Buhari is still a dictator and his
anti-corruption crusade is a sham, hypocritical and double standard.
Metuh said: “The PDP therefore states categorically that the
orchestrated investigation of Senator Akpabio is politically motivated
and targeted at weakening the PDP for 2019 elections, by virtue of his
being the face of opposition in the National Assembly. It is also part
of the fight by the Presidency to weaken the legislature as an arm of
government and prevent it from effectively carrying out its
constitutional role of checks and balances in a democracy.”
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