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FG Has Looted Repatriated $322m -PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party has said there is an alleged looting of the repatriated $322million (about N115billion), by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency, under the cover of distributing the money to the poor.
It also alleged that over N4billion had been looted under the Tradermoni and the Farmers Anchor Borrower schemes to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election campaign.
It, therefore, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the alleged lootings.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement last Wednesday also urged the EFCC to commence the prosecution of all those reportedly indicted by the House of Representatives, alongside Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, for alleged diversion of a huge part of the N33billion meant for food and other welfare items for Internally Displaced Persons in the North East.
Ologbondiyan, who is also the Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, stated that the investigation into the alleged looting, as well as the recovery of the alleged stolen funds from the coffers of the Buhari Presidential Campaign, must not be carried over into 2019.
He said, “The PDP PCO charges the EFCC to investigate the alleged looting of over N4billion under the Tradermoni and the Farmers Anchor Borrower schemes, to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election campaign.
“The PDP PCO also urges the EFCC to open investigation into the alleged looting of the repatriated $322million (about N115billion), by the Buhari Presidency, under the cover of distributing the money to the poor.”
He added, “On the repatriated N115billion, we charge the EFCC to make public its findings on the allegation that 90 per cent of the estimated 300,000 households listed as beneficiaries are phony family names supplied by fraudulent government officials, as conduit to channel the repatriated money to APC leaders and the Presidency cabal.
“It is rather despicable, after looting over N14trillion in unremitted oil revenue, the Presidency cabal and the All Progressives Congress leaders are also hiding under the plight of innocent Nigerians to further siphon funds for their selfish ambitions.”
According to him, Buhari was being very unfair to Nigerians in asking them to get ready for more suffering in 2019 when trillions of naira meant for their wellbeing have been allegedly siphoned and stashed away in his campaign coffers, where APC leaders also allegedly fritter away funds to finance their lifestyles.
He stated that the EFCC should note that Nigerians were already aware that agents of the Presidency and the APC are allegedly involved in N1.2billion round-tripping of public funds under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme.
Ologbondiyan said, “Nigerians are also in the know that agents of the Presidency, under the watch of Vice President Osinbajo, are being used to divert huge part of the budgeted sum for the Tradermoni scheme while handing out paltry sums to unsuspecting beneficiaries, who are further fleeced through 10 per cent kickbacks by APC agents”.