The people he calls now looters funded his 2015 campaign - PDP Reps, Senator responds to Buhari

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- The PDP claimed those who looted the country have joined APC

- They said looted money was used to fund Buhari's campaign

- The party also accused Buhari of failing in his campaign promises

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the National Assembly have responded to allegations from President Muhammadu Buhari that the party looted the country’s treasury.

The president had hinted that members of the party committed financial atrocities during their administration.

He had said: “Those who ruled Nigeria without vision and looted the nation’s treasury are the same people boasting that they will displace the APC government and return to office.

“We will wait and see, if they think Nigerians are ignorant. They have the guts to declare their intention to reclaim office.”

However The Punch reports that the caucus in the House of Representative in their reaction said those who looted the country’s treasury have now moved to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mrs. Binta Bello who is the deputy minority whip spoke on behalf of the causus that President Buhari should apologise to Nigerians for failing in his promises.

She said: “He (Buhari) has the right to attack us and we have the right to criticise him too by telling him the truth. That is the beauty of democracy.

“The people he now calls looters were the same people who funded his campaign in 2015.

“His campaign in 2015 was different from his campaign in previous years. In 2015, he had all the money to spend. The looters, who left the PDP, gave him the money. Why didn’t he reject it or tell Nigerians how he raised the campaign money?

“Let’s face the facts, the President has failed in delivering his campaign promises. Where is the 2017 budget? What can he boast to have achieved in terms of implementing the budget?

“They can see that he is in power and yet there is nothing to celebrate in terms of achievement. PDP has achievements it can point to.”

Senator Mathew Urhoghide in his reaction said: “I don’t agree with the President because 80 per cent of the looters in the then PDP government are now with the President in APC and are still looting and others are waiting to loot.”

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Senator Abiodun Olujimi also described the president’s claim as false.

She said: “Is it not PDP that has populated APC? He must be talking about his own party; he is talking about APC that is populated by PDP people who ran away to get succour.”

Meanwhile, the Attorney-General of the Federation and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, signed an agreement with the United States of America spelling out the roadmap for the return to Nigeria over $300m looted by Nigeria’s former Head of State, the late Gen. Sani Abacha, and a former governor of Bayelsa state, the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Punch reports.

NAIJ.com gathered that Malami said the US government had taken custody of the money, including parts of it stashed in the United Kingdom, France and Jersey.

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