Tell Buhari the Truth, Corruption Resides in His Presidency, PDP Charges Sagay

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said that President Muhammadu Buhari should leave the 8th National Assembly out of his failures to tame his fraudulent officials and curb the humongous corruption festering in his Presidency.

The party said in a statement byitsNationalPublicitySecretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, that the ChairmanofPresidentialAdvisory Committee on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, at his age and status, ought to be bold enough to tell PresidentBuharithatcorruption residesinthePresidentialVillaand that a President who surrounds himself with corrupt persons as ministers, special advisers and confidantscannotfightcorruption.

ThePDPtaskedProf.Sagayto clear his conscience by using his positiontoaskPresidentBuharito answer Nigerians on the alleged siphoningofN9trillionoilmoney through shady contracts, under hiswatch,asdetailedintheleaked NNPC memo.

Thepartyfurtheradvisedthat Prof.Sagaycouldtakeaface-saving measurebydemandinganinvestigationintotheallegedcorruptionin thehandlingoftheN1.4trillionoil subsidyinvolvingthecabalinthe PresidencyandcertainAllProgressives Congress (APC) leaders, in addition to the reported stealing ofoverN1.1trillionworthofcrude under Mr. President’s watch.

AccordingtoPDP,"Itisstrange to many Nigerians that Prof. Sagay, as the Chairman of the Anti-corruption Committee, could not summon the boldness to ask President Buhari to order an investigation into allegations by the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, that the N500bn meant for Social InvestmentProgramwasdiverted to private purses.