The PDP Presidential Campaign Organization has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to come out clean on the allegation that his family members corruptly acquired part ownership of Etisalat Nigeria and Keystone Bank PLC with the sum of N1.03 trillion.
The campaign organisation believes the APC Presidential candidate no longer has the moral standing to seek re-election until he directly answers its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the revelation that the President has soiled his hands in the alleged corrupt acquisition of the two firms.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Kola Ologbondiyan, Director, Media & Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, threatened to release details of the transactions if the President denies the allegations.
He accused the president’s aides of not addressing the allegations raised against him, stressing that Buhari himself should come out personally to address the matter.
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According to Ologbondiyan, “Nigerians are not interested in mere rhetoric or attempts by the Buhari Presidency to divert public attention from the issue at hand, but demand that President Buhari, who hitherto prides himself as Mr. Integrity, squarely addresses these grave issues in person.
“This is not an issue for President Buhari’s aides to howl about in the media, it touches directly on his person, particularly his perception as a symbol of the Talakawas. He must therefore address them on this issue.
“It is a norm that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands. President Buhari and his family members have entangled themselves in corruption. Mr. President’s hands can no longer be said to be clean, until he proves otherwise.
“The PPCO wants Nigerians and the whole world to note that President Buhari’s refusal to personally address this matter means consent.
“We, therefore, dare President Buhari to put forth a denial on this disclosure by our candidate and we will spare no thoughts in furnishing the public with details of his corrupt activities within and outside Nigeria.
“Our party has full details of how persons related to President Buhari, by consanguinity and affinity, have been paved the way to loot trillions of naira from government agencies for corrupt acquisition of shares in major companies, purchase expensive property within and outside Nigeria, as well as to finance their very luxury lifestyles, under Mr. President’s cover”.
He submitted that no Nigerian has made more money in the last three and half years than relations of the President.
The campaign director further alleged that relations of the President have been hounding government agencies, major business concerns and intending foreign investors over kickbacks as well as strangulating companies that refuse to accede to their demands.
“President Buhari should therefore not continue to dress himself in borrowed garb of integrity until he cleans himself of the stinking corruption of his acolytes, family and friends under his cover,” he added.
