We will give you list of corrupt APC members, name ours - PDP challenges President Buhari

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- Peoples Democratic Party has told President Buhari to name a corrupt politician in the PDP

- The party said this while reacting to a claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that PDP squandered the sum of $500bn oil proceeds within 16 years

- It also called on President Buhari not to allow his aides railroad him into peddling groundless allegations and bandying of unverified figures

President Muhammadu Buhari has been challenged by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to name corrupt members of their party and in turn, they will give him a list of corrupt politicians in the All Progressives Congress.

The party said this in a statement by PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, while reacting to a claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that PDP squandered the sum of $500bn oil proceeds within 16 years.

The PDP described the president's claim as baseless, unfounded, and unsubstantiated.

The party urged the president not to allow his aides railroad him into peddling such groundless allegations and bandying of unverified figures, as doing that could detract from his personality.

"The entire country is aware that the Presidency is on a feverish mode over their bound-to-fail 2019 re-election bid for which they have resorted to making spurious claims against the PDP even when it is clear to Nigerians that the PDP has since rebranded while preponderance of those who mismanaged the nation’s resources have now found a safe haven in the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC).

"The party however challenged President Buhari to name one corrupt person in the repositioned and rebranded PDP and it will hand him a list of an army of corrupt persons who are hiding in his APC including those who funded his 2015 presidential campaigns with stolen money in addition to his many cronies who are now frittering away billion of naira under his watch.

"We know that President Buhari did not source his figures, otherwise we would have directly taken him to task on the veracity of his claims and detestable image of his party

"We however ask; is the president and his handlers not aware of the humongous corruption going on under the Buhari presidency? What have they to say to the recent Transparency International (TI) report which shows that corruption has worsened under the Buhari administration? What have they to say about the official memo detailing shady oil deals to the tune of N9 trillion ($25 billion) at the NNPC which is directly under the purview of the President as minister of Petroleum resources?

"The presidency is yet to address its complicity in the heavy sleazes in the National Health Insurance Scheme where billions of naira have allegedly been siphoned by their agents, in spite of the Treasury Single Account (TSA); the alleged diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil and the frittering of billions of naira meant for rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons in the northeast, all to service APC interests?

"Has Mr president forgotten that when he assumed office in 2015, the value of our naira was N185 to 1USD? Nigerians are aware that the naira went as low as N510 to 1USD and in case Mr president is not aware, Nigerians are also ridiculing his much touted strengthening of the naira," the statement read.

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NAIJ.com had earlier reported that President Muhammadu Buhari said that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) squandered about $500 billion oil earnings in the 16 years it was in power.

The PDP led Nigeria from 1999 to 2015 when it lost the presidential election to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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