B00M: Presidency Expose The ‘Illegal Deeds’ Of PDP During Their Tenure | READ DETAILS

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has exposed the illegal deeds allegedly perpetrated by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during their tenure.

The Presidency made the revelation while responding to a statement credited to PDP governors, advising Nigerians against voting for the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections.

“It is impossible for a party so disorganized to offer good governance to the people of Nigeria” the PDP governors had stated.

Reacting in a statement released on Sunday, titled, ‘Issues from the PDP fantasy communiqué from Umuahia,’ Shehu made some allegations against the party.

According to aide, the PDP is trying to “cover up the serial and criminal failures of its long and damaging period in office, which the Muhammadu Buhari regime and the All Progressives Congress have strived these past seven years to repair.”

He accused the PDP of pocketing money meant for soldiers, inflating herder-farmers crisis, encouraging black market to push ill-gotten funds outside the shores of Nigeria, stealing $20bn from the NNPC without remitting to the federation account, etc.

“We cannot forget under the PDP, the nation had an army full of phantom soldiers whose pay went to PDP politicians’ pockets while our under-resourced real soldiers died in the fight against terrorist insurgents and our international allies refused to supply Nigeria kit and military aid.

“We cannot ignore how the PDP politicians sought—and continue to seek—to inflame ethnic and religious tensions by refusing to even proffer a solution to the herder-farmer clashes which became most prevalent under their misrule.

“We will always remember how the PDP politicians intentionally encouraged and exploited the black market in currency exchange to convert ill-gotten gains to foreign currency and undermine our national currency, then spirited their funds abroad in their billions and into foreign bank accounts.”

 “Today with the APC in government, there are ranches on Federal land and in state land where there is the willingness to establish them. Clashes are reduced. Lives are saved, and livelihoods are enriched.

“Today with the APC we support our national currency; we have achieved self-sufficiency in rice and fertilizer production; we refuse to allow greedy politicians and businessmen to hide their money overseas, and instead build an economy here in Nigeria for all.”

“Who would trust such people with the running of our country? Who can believe a word these people say, as they looked outwardly stylish but harrowed by power-sharing and other troubles inwardly?

“These people, who play politics of division and hate, create communal disturbances, need to change. Check the facts and leave the politics: What does the country get with this kind of gimmick?” Shehu queried