PDP asks INEC to proscribe APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to proscribe the All Progressives Congress (APC) because it allegedly financed President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign with looted funds.
The opposition party in a statement yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, also gave the Buhari-led presidency a three-day ultimatum to respond to allegations that it was elected through the use of looted funds.
“It is evidently that the APC-led clear Federal Government and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, are running away from the issue of how they raised money to install Buhari as president.
“They have pressed the panic button and resorted to unfounded allegations against PDP members just to divert the attention of Nigerians and the international community from their atrocious government and its manifold failures of leadership.
“Now that the APC, the Federal Government, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the Buhari Presidency have chosen a loud silence rather than accepting that looted funds were used to install Buhari as president in 2015, we charge INEC to do the needful by commencing the process for the proscription of the APC as a political party.
“The PDP will not join the panicky APC and the Federal government in their resort to engage in matters that are subjudice because we believe and respect the rule of law, particularly, as it concerns the rights of every citizen.
“We know those in the APC and Buhari’s cabinet, who as champions of looting, plundered the resources of their various states and handed same over for the very expensive electioneering campaign of President Buhari, who had earlier confessed of his insolvency,” the PDP said.