The anti-graft crusade of the administration is falling to pieces
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the suspension of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Managing Director, Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman over allegations of non-remittance of operating surpluses from 2016 to 2020 to the tune of over a hundred billion. While there are also counter-allegations of impropriety against the transportation minister, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, it is not lost on Nigerians that members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that came to power to ‘fight corruption’ are squealing on one another. In the process, this administration is now buffeted by several scandals.
Last week, the Senate Committee on Finance chaired by a member of the ruling APC raised the alarm that some government-owned agencies have failed to remit over N2trn to the federation account from 2014 till date. The monumental scandal running into hundreds of billions of naira in the Niger Delta Development Commissio
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‘Stolen N15 trn’: Argue with facts, APC challenges PDP
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By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA
The All Progressives Congress APC has challenged the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP to always argue with facts whenever it wants to accuse the ruling party of corruption.
APC in a statement on Wednesday by the National Secretary of its Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe noted that in the past weeks, “the PDP has laboured to canvass tales of a phantom stolen N15 trillion public funds in the media”.
According to the ruling party, “it is not surprising that the generality of discerning Nigerians have ignored the unfounded and baseless allegation because it is clear that only the PDP believes its deviant tales. We invite the PDP to argue with the facts”.
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