PDP backs Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign

… We didn’t send anybody to steal money – Party

The Peoples Democratic Party said on Thursday that it is willing to support President Muhammadu Buhari‘s administration in the fight against corruption, saying it did not ask any of its public officers in the last regime to take money.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, who stated this in on Political Platform, a Radio Nigeria political programme monitored in Abuja, also said the party believes in the sincerity of President Buhari in addressing problems of insecurity, corruption and the economy.

However, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who was also on the programme, said it was difficult to distinguish between seriousness and sincerity, pointing out that President Buhari has been able to restore the confidence of Nigerians in the system.

Metuh said, “On security, we believe that this President should be serious. We give it to him that he is serious, being a General and the President and an expert in the management of crisis, we give it to him that he is serious about addressing the security challenges.

“We believe that he is sincere as well. We want to give it to him that he is sincere in handling it. We don’t want to raise the fact that when he took over, the last administration had driven back the insurgents and there were no bombing.

“We don’t want to go into the issue of security. We are presenting a more robust opposition to this government. That is why the improvement in the system we have now is because we have a responsible opposition that is not distracting the government from governance.

“On the issue of the economy, we believe that the President is sincere in trying to do something about the economy. But is he serious about it? We don’t believe so because we have not seen any seriousness on the part of the present administration.

“When you want to be serious, you should have an economic team. You should have people that advices you and a road map. There is absolutely no policy or programme that we have seen from this government that shows they are ready for governance except saying PDP is corrupt, N2 trillion is missing here and N500million is missing there.

“A lot of people know why we lost the election and we know why we lost the election too. So, we don’t want to go in there. My advice to the government and the APC is that politics has ended and it is time for governance. We have ceded the seat and this is the time for APC to show Nigerians that change mantra that they campaigned with. We are not contesting this thing, but they think they are still in opposition.”

 

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